Stock-brook

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Stock-brook
Stream
General Information
LocationThe Eastfarthing, bordering The Marish
TypeStream
DescriptionNortheast flowing brook
RegionsThe Shire

The Stock-brook was 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 northeastwards 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.[1]

Etymology

David Salo suggested the name represents a possible "Old Hobbitish" Se Stocbroc.

As it gets its name from the village of Stock, its meaning is "the brook running through Stock".[2]

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