Glaze Brook
The Glaze Brook, or River Glaze, is a minor river in Lancashire, which becomes a tributary of the River Mersey.
The brook rises in Lately Common (south of Leigh) and runs south towards the River Mersey, being swallowed in the Manchester Ship Canal at the county border with Cheshire. In all, the Glaze Brook is about 19 miles long. Its main tributaries are the Astley, Bedford, Hey, Pennington, Shaw and Westleigh Brooks.[1]
Course
The Glaze Brook drains a large area around Leigh and is formed at the outflow of Pennington Flash (53°29’6"N, 2°32’7"W close to Aspull Common. Pennington Flash is fed by Hey Brook, a continuation of Nan Holes Brook, which runs eastwards from Ashton-in-Makerfield.
After picking up the waters of Bedford Brook, which runs southward from Leigh and the Black or Moss Brook coming west from Worsley by way of Chat Moss, the brook turns southward, ultimately draining into the River Mersey near Cadishead; the Mersey here is canalised to become a section of the Manchester Ship Canal.
The Glaze Brook's catchment drains the flat lowland around Leigh which reaches a maximum altitude of 518 feet above sea level. The brook flows through largely agricultural land. Its tributaries extend into former mining and industrial areas in which mining subsidence has created flashes (lakes) at Pennington and Westleigh.
The underlying geology is the sandstone and coal measures of the Lancashire Coalfield.[2]
Tributaries
- Willow Brook
- Jibcroft Brook
- Carr Brook
- Black/Moss Brook
- Bedford Brook
- Lilford Park Brook
- Atherton Lake Brook
- Atherton Brook
- Collier Brook
- Hindsford Brook
- Shakerley Brook
- Old Mill Brook
- Cutacre Brook
- Old Mill Brook
- Chanters Brook
- Carr Brook
- Shakerley Brook
- Atherton Brook
- Atherton Lake Brook
- Pen Leach Brook
- Lilford Park Brook
- Town Brook
- Astley Brook
- Elennor Brook
- Honksford Brook
- Elennor Brook
- Astley Brook
- Whitehead Brook
- Stirrup Brook
- Ellen Brook
- Stirrup Brook
- Shaw Brook
- Bedford Brook
- Pennington Brook
- Hey Brook
- Westleigh Brook
- Small Brook
- Marsh Brook
- Cunningham Brook
- Pennington Brook (Westhoughton)
- Cunningham Brook
- Hall Lee Brook
- Windy Bank Brook
- Nan Holes Brook
- Coffin Lane Brook
- Borsdane Brook
- Dog Pool Brook
- Westleigh Brook
- Hey Brook
References
- ↑ Glaze - Summary, Environment Agency, http://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/OperationalCatchment/nw-22/Summary, retrieved 2 January 2015
- ↑ Glaze Brook at Little Woolden Hall (69005), Environment Agency, http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/hiflows/station.aspx?69005, retrieved 27 January 2013
