__NOTOC__ Pincey Brook is a watercourse in the

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and

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districts of

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, England, and is a tributary to the

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Course

Pincey Brook rises at the south-east edge of

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, just north from the

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, and in the civil parish of Takeley. It runs south through

Hatfield Broad Oak Hatfield Broad Oak (also known as Hatfield Regis) is a village and civil parish in the Uttlesford district of Essex, England. The village is approximately south-east of Bishop's Stortford. Near the church of St Mary the Virgin is former Benedic ...

parish, passing the hamlet of Bush End, and, further south, Hatfield Broad Oak village at its western edge, afterwards turning south-west to become part of the parish boundary with

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. Curving further towards the west through Hatfield Heath parish, it becomes the northern boundary of the Down Hall Estate. For beyond the western edge of the Estate, it becomes the parish boundary between Hatfield Heath and Matching, before flowing into Sheering parish for 800 yards (730 m), after which it becomes the parish boundary between Matching and Sheering, this for 1500 yards (1,400 m), and to the M11 motorway. A culvert takes the Brook under the motorway, after which it remains in Sheering until 550 yards (500 m) from the north-east edge of Gibberd Garden. From here the Brook becomes the boundary between Sheering and the Essex town of Harlow at Elim Meadows, until it flows into the River Stort at a triangulation with

Sawbridgeworth Sawbridgeworth is a town and civil parish in Hertfordshire, England, close to the border with Essex. It is east of Hertford and north of Epping. It is the northernmost part of the Greater London Built-up Area. History Prior to the Norman ...

parish in Hertfordshire. The total length is approximately .

History

Between 1999 and 2003, during Stansted Airport expansion, evidence was found of Middle Bronze Age settlement close to Pincey Brook. A sport mare, born 1985, was named 'Pincey Brook'. In 2013, a study was reported in the journal ''Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters'', concerning the probability of the incipient invasiveness of

signal crayfish The signal crayfish (''Pacifastacus leniusculus'') is a North American species of crayfish. It was introduced to Europe in the 1960s to supplement the North European ''Astacus astacus'' fisheries, which were being damaged by crayfish plague, but ...

within the River Stort catchment area, including Pincey Brook."Environmental biology of an invasive population of signal crayfish in the River Stort catchment (southeastern England)"
, in '' Limnologica - Ecology and Management of Inland Waters (LIMNOLOGICA)'' 43(3): pp. 177–184 May 2013. Retrieved 24 March 2017

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Pincey Brook Pincey Brook Uttlesford Epping Forest District