Tanner's Brook

Tanner's brook flowing through Millbrook

Tanner's Brook is a 7-kilometre (4.3 mi) river that rises in North Baddesley and flows to Southampton Water.[1] The brook's name comes from a 19th-century tannery that stood close to where the river passed under Millbrook Road in Millbrook.[2]

The longest tributary of Tanner's Brook is Hollybrook which joins it in Shirley.[2][3] Above where the two streams join they both flow through sections of Lordsdale Greenway.[4] On its lower course Tanner's Brook flows through Millbrook and is probably the brook that gives Millbrook its name.[2] Within Millbrook a small section of the river was culverted during the construction of the Salisbury and Southampton Canal.[5] This was filled with concrete in 1964 as part of a flood relief project.[5][6]

Originally the river was joined on the mudflats of Southampton Water by Wimpson Stream but with the mudflats being reclaimed by the expanding docks the Wimpson Stream now joins Tanner's Brook before it reaches Southampton Water.[2]

  1. ^ "Tanner's Brook Water Body". Catchment Data Explorer. Environment Agency. Archived from the original on 17 June 2024. Retrieved 10 November 2021.
  2. ^ a b c d Burgess, Lawrence (1982). The Streams and Watercourses Of Southampton. Friends of Old Southampton. pp. 4–5.
  3. ^ "PUSH Strategic Flood Risk Assessment 2016 Update Guidance Document: Southampton City Council" (PDF). Hantsweb. Partnership for Urban South Hampshire. 2016. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  4. ^ "Lordsdale Greenway". southampton.gov.uk. Southampton City Council. Archived from the original on 16 March 2018. Retrieved 15 March 2018.
  5. ^ a b Course, Edwin (1976). "Southampton Canal Tunnel" (PDF). Proceedings of the Hampshire Field Club & Archaeological Society. 33: 74. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 January 2018. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
  6. ^ Welch, Edwin (1966). The Bankrupt Canal: Southampton and Salisbury 1795–1808. Southampton City Council. pp. 24–25.