West End Brook is a small stream

Stream

A stream is a body of water with a current, confined within a bed and stream banks. Depending on its locale or certain characteristics, a stream may be referred to as a branch, brook, beck, burn, creek, "crick", gill , kill, lick, rill, river, syke, bayou, rivulet, streamage, wash, run or...

 in southern England

England

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. It rises near the Hampshire

Hampshire

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 village of Tadley

Tadley

Tadley is a town and civil parish in the English county of Hampshire.During the 1950s and 1960s, the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment , now known as AWE, became the area's largest employer, and a large number of houses were built during this period to accommodate AWRE workers...

. Its name is probably related to the parish, and village, it passes through for some of its course: Mortimer West End

Mortimer West End

Mortimer West End is a village and civil parish in north Hampshire in England.At one time it was the Hampshire part of the cross-county parish of Stratfield Mortimer . It became an independent ecclesiastical parish in 1870 - the church of St Saviour having been built in 1854 - and a civil parish in...

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The source is very close to West's Meadow, Aldermaston SSSI

Site of Special Scientific Interest

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, from where the stream travels East, passing through Upper Moor's Gulley to the South off AWE Aldermaston. A tributory joins the stream here, arriving from Decoy Pond, within the AWE site. This particular area, identified on maps as Roundwood Copse is also an SSSI

Site of Special Scientific Interest

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 Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods

Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods

Decoy Pit, Pools and Woods is a 20.27 hectare Site of Special Scientific Interest at Aldermaston Wharf in the civil parish of Aldermaston in the English county of Berkshire, notified in 1993....

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Further East the stream travels through the woodland of Benyon's Inclosure, and the watercourse is ponded here, at Kiln Pond. Just to the South of the pond is The Frith

The Frith

The Frith is a small univallate Iron Age hillfort to the north of Silchester, Calleva Atrebatum, Roman town. A single bank covers all sides apart from the south east, and is at the most about 5 feet high on the western edge. A ditch is also traceable for the length of the bank, although at varying...

, an Iron Age Hillfort. Also in the area, further to the South, is Silchester Roman Town. After flowing further East and to the South, the stream joins the Foudry Brook

Foudry Brook

Foudry Brook is a small stream in southern England. It rises near the Hampshire village of Baughurst named as Beaumonts Stream or Beaumonts Brook.-Geography:...

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