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Location
Flowing northeastwards from Woody End to meet the Brandywine at Stock
Race
Culture
Settlements
Stock stood near the brook's mouth
Source
Woody End, the eastern end of the Green Hill Country
Tributaries
None
Outflow
Into the river Brandywine
Meaning
Named after the village of Stock, which probably means 'outlying village'
Other names
Sometimes spelt without a hyphen, as 'Stockbrook'1

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The Stock-brook

The stream that flowed through Stock in the Shire

Map of the Stock-brook

A brook of the Shire's Eastfarthing, and a minor tributary of the River Brandywine. It rose in the forested hills above Woody End, and from there flowed eastwards and a little northwards out into the fields of the Marish. It passed through the southern end of the village of Stock, from which it took its name, before emptying into the Brandywine a few miles north of Bucklebury Ferry.


Notes

1

Specifically, the unhyphenated form appears on the large-scale map of the Shire in The Lord of the Rings. In the text of that book, the hyphenated form 'Stock-brook' is preferred.

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