page_title: Monks Brook
section_title: Course
hierarchical_section_title: Monks Brook / Course
caption_attribution_description: View south from the footpath. In the distance is North Baddesley Church SU4020
context_page_description: Monks Brook is a river in the English county of Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Itchen, which it joins at a medieval salmon pool in Swaythling. The brook is formed from seven streams that rise in the chalky South Downs, with the official source of Monks Brook being known as Bucket's Corner. Monks Brook drains a clay catchment of 49 square kilometres. The brook is designated a main river, which means the operating authority for managing it is the Environment Agency, not the local government authorities for the areas through which the river runs.
  The brook has given its name to a public house, a street in the town of Eastleigh, a junior football team and a petrol station among other things.
  In 2007, a 250 metres stretch of a tributary to the brook that had been culverted in the 1970s to make way for a golf course was uncovered as part of a £2.5 million community regeneration project.
context_section_description: The source, Bucket Corner (sometimes Bucket's Corner), is located to the west of Chandler's Ford, north of St John the Baptist Church, North Baddesley (at 50°59′22″N 01°25′30″W).  The stream flows initially north-eastwards, past Trodds Copse Site of Special Scientific Interest, turning east when it meets the Eastleigh to Romsey railway line to run parallel to the railway.  Both river and railway turn southeastwards as they enter Chandler's Ford itself, with Monks Brook crossing under the railway to run along the north bank of a cutting before they pass underneath Flexford Road.  Here, a tributary joins the main stream from the north and the brook turns to the south, once again crossing under the railway.  The brook continues to run roughly parallel to the railway line until shortly before Chandler's Ford railway station, where another tributary joins from the west and the brook flows underneath the railway line and the Hursley Road/Winchester Road roundabout in Chandler's Ford.
  The brook then continues to flow southeastwards on the north side of the railway line before turning south away from the railway as they approach the M3 motorway.  Monks Brook passes under Weardale Road and flows southwards between Skipton Road and Steele Close before entering a short tunnel that takes it under Leigh Road (the A335), then subsequent tunnels under the M3 motorway and junction 13 sliproad and into the Fleming Park golf course in Eastleigh.  Here the brook continues to flow mainly due south through Fleming Park, between Magpie Lane and Passfield Avenue, crossing under Nightingale Avenue on the way.
  After passing under Chestnut Avenue, Monks Brook continues to flow southwards with Monks Brook Close immediately to the east and Stoneham Lane on the west.  There is a flow measuring station on Monks Brook at Stoneham Lane, managed by the Environment Agency on behalf of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology's National River Flow Archive.  At this point, the brook has an average flow of 0.23 cubic metres (8.12 cu ft) per second.
  The brook continues to flow south, parallel to Stoneham Lane, and passing close to the lakes of Lakeside Country Park.  The brook then passes under the A335 close to Southampton Airport and under the M27 motorway just to the east of Junction 5.  (In fact, the brook passes under the sliproads of that junction too).
  The brook continues to flow south before turning slightly southwestwards to run parallel with another railway, the South West main line, which the brook eventually flows under and emerges alongside the Fleming Arms public house (named after the arms of Thomas Fleming) in Swaythling, on the Mansbridge (A27) road.   After flowing under the A27, the brook continues southwards, passing the rear of South Stoneham church, entering the grounds of the Wessex Lane Halls.  Here, Monks Brook was a feature of the gardens of South Stoneham House, landscaped by Capability Brown and feeds a large salmon pool. It is from these grounds that the brook flows into the River Itchen, at Woodmill opposite the upper section of Southampton's Riverside Park (at 50°56′8″N 01°22′33″W).
caption: The source of Monks Brook is located under the hedgerow in the foreground of this photograph
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