Begwary Brook

Tributary of the River Great Ouse

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LocationCountryEnglandCountyBedfordshirePhysical characteristicsSource • locationNorth of Duck's Cross MouthRiver Great Ouse

• location

Wyboston

• coordinates

52°11′38″N 0°17′25″W / 52.1938°N 0.2904°W / 52.1938; -0.2904Length4 miles (6.4 km)

Begwary Brook in Bedfordshire is a four mile long tributary of the River Great Ouse. Its source is half a mile north of Duck's Cross, and it then flows east to join the Great Ouse in Wyboston. The Environment Agency classes its water quality as good.^[1]

Begwary Brook is also the name of a nature reserve at the junction of the brook with the river, which is managed by the Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Gravel extraction has created a small lake and several smaller pools and marshland. The pools are surrounded by willow trees, and plants include common fleabane and marsh woundwort. Dragonflies and damselflies are common over the marsh in the summer.^[2]

There is access to the site by a footpath from the Wyboston Lakes complex.^[2]

References

^ "Begwary Brook". Environment Agency. Retrieved 19 December 2015.
^ ^a ^b "Begwary Brook". Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire. Retrieved 16 December 2015.

Wildlife Trust for Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire and Northamptonshire

Bedfordshire

Bedford	Begwary Brook Cople Pits Felmersham Gravel Pits Pavenham Osier Beds Sewell Cutting Sharnbrook Summit Wymington Meadow
Central Bedfordshire	Arlesey Old Moat and Glebe Meadows Barton Gravel Pit Blow's Downs Cooper's Hill Cut-throat Meadow Dropshort Marsh Fancott Woods and Meadows Flitwick Moor King's Wood and Rammamere Heath Lancot Meadow Landpark Wood Old Warden Tunnel Pegsdon Hills and Hoo Bit The Riddy Sallowsprings Totternhoe

Cambridgeshire

Cambridge	Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits Skaters' Meadow
East Cambridgeshire	Chettisham Meadow Doghouse Grove Fordham Woods Ouse Washes Soham Meadow
Fenland	Lattersey Norwood Road
Huntingdonshire	Arthur's Meadow Brampton Wood Gamsey Wood Godmanchester Grafham Water Great Fen Houghton Meadows Lady's Wood Pingle Cutting Raveley Wood Shepherd's Close Upwood Meadows Waresley and Gransden Woods Wistow Wood Woodwalton Marsh
Peterborough	Dogsthorpe Star Pit Southorpe Meadow Southorpe Paddock Stanground Newt Ponds Stanground Wash Thorpe Wood Wansford Pasture & Standen's Pasture Woodston Ponds
South Cambridgeshire	Beechwoods Buff Wood Cambourne Fulbourn Fen Gamlingay Cinques Gamlingay Wood Hardwick Wood Hayley Wood Lower Wood Overhall Grove Shepreth L Moor Trumpington Meadows

Northamptonshire

North Northamptonshire	Barford Wood and Meadows Collyweston Quarries Ditchford Lakes and Meadows Finedon Cally Banks Glapthorn Cow Pastures Great Oakley Meadow Higham Ferrers Pits Irthlingborough Lakes and Meadows King's Wood Old Sulehay The Plens Rothwell Gullet Short Wood and Southwick Wood Southfield Farm Marsh Stoke Wood End Quarter Summer Leys Tailby Meadow Titchmarsh Wicksteed Park Wilson's Pits
West Northamptonshire	Abington Meadows Barnes Meadow Boddington Meadow Bradlaugh Fields Bugbrooke Meadow Duston Mill Meadow Farthinghoe Grafton Regis Meadow Harlestone Heath High Wood and Meadow Kingsthorpe Meadow Lings Mill Crook Pitsford Water Nature Reserve Ramsden Corner Stoke Bruerne Brick Pits Storton's Pits Woodford Halse

North Northamptonshire