Peover Eye

The Peover Eye in Spinney Wood, south of Peover Hall

The Peover Eye is a small river in Cheshire, which ultimately runs into the Wincham Brook, a tributary of the River Weaver.

The name of the river is reflected in the villages of Over Peover, close to its source, and Lower Peover downstream, as well as Peover Hall, a country House at Over Peover and Peover Heath. The word "Eye" is from the Old English ea, meaning 'river'. The word 'Peover' appears in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Peover is mentioned in the Domesday Book as "Pevre", and is speculated to be from an ancient British language word meaning "the bright one", in reference to the stream.

Many little brooks, running in their incised gullies, join together to form the Peover Eye around Astel Park, south of Chelford, from where the river heads generally westwards in loops and tight meanders to the south of Peover Hall and on the Little Peover, a hamlet which is the first village on the stream itself.

The river runs into the Wincham Brook a little northeast of Lostock Gralam, the brook soon becoming the Witton Brook.