[Talk-gb-westmidlands] Dowles Brook, Wyre Forest

[Andy Mabbett]

According to the Environment Agency source cited by Wikipedia:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dowles_Brook

Dowles Brook is 15.5 km long.

I've just created a relation for our mapping of it, and it only totals 8km:

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/relation/12687867#map=13/52.3852/-2.3677

The origin, at the western end, is apparently this node:

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/6314143144

where the source seems to be the convergence of two other waterways:
Raveney Brook and Lem Brook.

Can anyone explain the discrepancy? Is one of the latter two waterways
also known as Dowles Brook? Or labelled in error?

I have one source that gives "The Dowles Brook flows ... from its
source at Bagginswood, Shropshire [SO6881]", but a) it's not a
particularly reliable source and b) there are three streams that start
near that location, each of which eventually flows into what we have
as Dowles Brook, but are unnamed on OSM:

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/42741502

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/42741508

   https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/42741511






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Andy Mabbett
@pigsonthewing
http://pigsonthewing.org.uk