The Plants Brook in Pype Hayes
Introduction
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The Plants Brook in Pype Hayes
Image: © Richard Law Taken: 11 Mar 2020
The steel and concrete construction in the foreground is a 'sump' for the brook, which has been engineered to flow underground all the rest of the way to its confluence with the Tame. It previously ran just north of the cluster of reservoirs east of here Image, then turned south through farmland west of Minworth, to join the Tame near Castle Bromwich; however it was being messed about with even by the late 19th century, as the 1889 maps suggests it had been diverted to allow the construction of the railways. The Castle Vale housing estate now occupies much of the land through which it formerly flowed, and the brook barely surfaces any more.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.527686
Longitude
-1.801703