There is, rather confusingly, a stream with two names in the Sid Valley:
The Bickwell stream or Woolbrook – The Sid
And there is another stream which shares one of these two names – namely the Woolbrook ‘proper’ in the Sid River catchment itself, which joins the Sid at Lymebourne.
In the Place Analysis, a key part of the Sid Valley Neighbourhood Plan, the Woolbrook is clearly important as a green/blue corridor in the heart of the built-up area. This vivid and telling map is from page 18 of the Place Analysis, under ‘landscape character’:
It’s considered important enough to have its own page on the national river levels website:
Wool Brook at Sidmouth Higher Woolbrook Road :: the UK River Levels Website
And the Sid Valley Biodiversity Group’s monitoring team has been measuring the quality of the water in the Woolbrook since 2020:
Finally, Jan Metcalf of the SVBG’s water monitoring team has kindly sent in these photographs of the Woolbrook:
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Photo1 Woolbrook upper reaches by Fire Beacon Footpath.
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Photos 2 and 3: Woolbrook at Lymebourne.
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