Smestow Brook

Smestow Brook or River Smestow or River Stour
Smestow Brook or River Smestow or River Stour
Etymology	Place of the smiths
Location
Country	England
Counties	West Midlands, Staffordshire
District	Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Wolverhampton
• coordinates	52°35′31″N 2°07′14″W / 52.59191°N 2.1206188°W
Mouth
• location	Prestwood, Staffordshire
• coordinates	52°28′03″N 2°12′10″W / 52.4675047°N 2.2027346°W
Length	27 km (17 mi)
Basin features
Tributaries
• left	Graiseley Brook, Finchfield Brook, Wom Brook, Holbeche Brook, Dawley Brook
• right	Black Brook, Spittle Brook

The Smestow Brook, sometimes called the River Smestow, is a small river that plays an important part in the drainage of Wolverhampton, South Staffordshire, and parts of Dudley in the United Kingdom, and has contributed to the industrial development of the Black Country. It is the most important tributary of the River Stour, Worcestershire and part of the River Severn catchment.^[1]

^ The Smestow was also known as the River Smestall in some 19th-century (and earlier) reference works. For example "Smestall, a river in Stafford, which runs into the Stour near Stourton-Castle" (Capper, Benjamin Pitts (1825). A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom (5 ed.). Richard Phillips. p. 710.).

[1] The Smestow was also known as the River Smestall in some 19th-century (and earlier) reference works. For example "Smestall, a river in Stafford, which runs into the Stour near Stourton-Castle" (Capper, Benjamin Pitts (1825). A topographical dictionary of the United Kingdom (5 ed.). Richard Phillips. p. 710.).

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