Parson's Brook is a minor river (

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) located in the

Horsham District Horsham is a local government district in West Sussex, England. Its council is based in Horsham. The district borders those of Crawley, Mid Sussex, Mole Valley, Chichester, Arun and Adur, and the unitary authority of Brighton & Hove. Th ...

West Sussex West Sussex is a county in South East England on the English Channel coast. The ceremonial county comprises the shire districts of Adur, Arun, Chichester, Horsham, and Mid Sussex, and the boroughs of Crawley and Worthing. Covering an ar ...

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. It is a

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to the

River Adur The Adur ( or ) is a river in Sussex, England; it gives its name to the Adur district of West Sussex. The river, which is long, was once navigable for large vessels up as far as Steyning, where there was a large Saxon port, but by the 11th ce ...

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(2005) "Crawley & Horsham OS Explorer Map 134 (1:25 000 scale)". Retrieved 9 November 2021.

Course

The brook rises in the hamlet of

Barns Green Barns Green is a village in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Billingshurst to Itchingfield road north of Billingshurst. It is noted for the annual half marathon A half marathon is a road running event of —half the ...

, in the

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Itchingfield Itchingfield is a small village and civil parish in the Horsham district of West Sussex, England. It lies on the Barns Green to Broadbridge Heath road southwest of Horsham Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on ...

,Itchingfield Parish
, December 2018. Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment (SHELAA).

Horsham District Council Horsham is a market town on the upper reaches of the River Arun on the fringe of the Weald in West Sussex, England. The town is south south-west of London, north-west of Brighton and north-east of the county town of Chichester. Nearby town ...

. Retrieved 9 November 2021. and flows south-west, passing multiple farmsteads, before flowing north-west around

Brooks Green Brooks Green is a hamlet in the Shipley civil parish of the Horsham District of West Sussex, England. It is in the north-west of the parish, approximately from the parish village of Shipley, and south-west from the district town of Horsham. Th ...

in the civil parish of Shipley, after which the brook flows into the River Adur.

References

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