Hebble Brook
The Hebble Brook is a stream in the West Riding of Yorkshire which runs through Halifax, and ultimately is a tributary of the River Calder.
The brook emerges from Ogden Reservoir to head south, at Ogden. The reservoir itself is sourced from water draining off Skirden Edge, through Skirden Clough, to the west and from the north the reservoir takes in water from Deep Gulf and Spa Flat, above the now disused Fly Delph Quarry, through the Great Scar.
The Middle Grain Beck and Carrs Beck flow into Hebble Brook, from the land around Halifax golf course, at Brookhouse, just south of Ogden Reservoir, then continues south past Mixenden, where various small springs and old quarry workings add to the water volume.
Just to the side of Hebble Road at Wheatley, Yorkshire north of Halifax, near Hill Park Avenue, the stream disappears underground in culvert in woodland at SE079263 to enter the town covertly. A minor stream, nevertheless, it cuts an impressive valley, spanned by the Hebble Brook Viaduct in Halifax, beneath which the brook, now emerged from its pipe, flows.
The brook runs through the middle of Halifax, through a mixture of culvert, green landscape and concrete, post-industrial townscape.
The Hebble Brook finally discharges its waters into the Calder just south of Halifax at the Exley Locks.
