Cran Brook
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Cran Brook
Image: © Robin Jones Taken: 30 Jan 2008
The Cran Brook, a tributary of the River Blythe which gives its name to the Cranmore area of Shirley. Rising somewhere near Our Lady of the Wayside church in Stratford Road, Shirley, it has been progressively culverted since the early 1950s. Running next to the Highlands Road industrial estate, in the past it has been polluted by discharges from factories. One of Solihull's 'lost' streams like the Streetsbrook, the remaining visible section runs through public open space leading into Hillfield Park.
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Image Location
Latitude
52.394013
Longitude
-1.80671