Old Brook is a small watercourse in
Shaw and Crompton
Shaw and Crompton is a civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham, Greater Manchester, England, which contains the town of Shaw and lies on the River Beal at the foothills of the South Pennines. It is located north of Oldham, south ...
in the
Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
The Metropolitan Borough of Oldham is a metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester in North West England. It is named after its largest town, Oldham, The borough had a population of 237,628 making it the seventh-largest district by population ...
,
Greater Manchester
Greater Manchester is a metropolitan county and combined authority, combined authority area in North West England, with a population of 2.8 million; comprising ten metropolitan boroughs: City of Manchester, Manchester, City of Salford, Salford ...
in the northwest of
England. It flows from Crow Knowl on
Crompton Moor to the
River Beal
The Beal is a small river in Greater Manchester, England, and is a tributary of the River Roch. It rises in the Beal Valley in green space between Sholver and Royton, before continuing northwards through Shaw and Crompton, Newhey, Milnrow and ...
. Its main feature is a waterfall at Pingot Quarry.
Tributaries
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Brushes Brook (formerly Leornardin Brook)
Crompton Moor History Trail
Gallery
File:Old Brook Waterfall.jpg, Waterfall
File:Pingot Quarry Waterfall May 2009.jpg, Pingot Quarry waterfall, 2009
File:Pingot Quarry - geograph.org.uk - 1292369.jpg, Pingot Quarry
File:Old Brook Mouth.jpg, Confluence with River Beal
References
Rivers of the Metropolitan Borough of Oldham
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