Forums Forums Wirral Information Ask - Wiki Wirral Ash Brook? Maybe.

I think there was once a brook that started around mount road. I guess This has now been culverted and runs under Heswall Avenue and Brimstage Avenue and crosses Kings road to make its way into the Allotments where it emerges briefly. There it runs after heavy rain in a ditch or small valley along the south side of the allotments until it reaches a grid near Kingsbrook way and vanishes from view,

From this point on it is underground now, and has been turned into a sewer I guess, but its original course can be clearly seen in the course it cut in the land along the South side of the allotments behind the houses on Princes Boulevard until it gets to the cae park behind Bebington Road Tesco. It crosses Kings road near the Kings and following the lowest point continues behind the Sops making its way towards Woodhey , passing teh oval and following the road to Bebindgton stations and passing below the railway bridge.

From there it runs - I guess - under Brook street through Port sunlight and passes under the New Chester Road between Corniche Rd and Lodge Lane, Goes under the bypass and emerges as the main sewage input to Bromborough Waste treatment plant.

From looking at road names such as Kingsbrook Road, and Brook Street I expect it was called the something brook, and the oldest road I can find which may have been built when it was still a recognisable brook is Ashbrook Terrace suspect it might once have been called the Ash Brook.

I have been told it was called the Withert, but I am sceptical about this,

Can anyone confirm ny guesswork here? Is it the Ash Brook? If not, what?

I really don't think it has ever had a formal name so so it was probably nicknamed locally in different areas hence Dale, Withert, Wood, Ash etc all occurring depending who you speak to.

A fair length was the formal boundary of Tranmere yet isn't named in the boundary description, just described.

My favourite would be Wood Burn but that's because I am half jock, it would tie up with its source being in Storeton Wood.