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{{Short description|River in England}}
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{{River Colne Hertfordshire map|Colne Brook (see Bold)}}
The '''Colne Brook''' is a river in England that is a [[distributary]] of the [[River Colne, Hertfordshire|River Colne]] which runs from Uxbridge Moor, there forming the western border of Greater London, to the [[River Thames]] just below [[Bell Weir Lock]] in [[Hythe End]], [[Wraysbury]], [[Berkshire]].{{#tag:ref|In the same way as [[Datchet]], [[Eton, Berkshire|Eton]] and [[Slough]], all parts of Berkshire mentioned were historically [[Buckinghamshire]].|group= n}}

==Course==
On leaving the Colne at [[Uxbridge]] Moor in the [[Colne Valley regional park]], the Colne Brook flows close by to its west until [[West Drayton]] then passes under the [[M25 motorway]] at the [[M4 motorway|M4]] "[[Thorney, Buckinghamshire|Thorney interchange]]", enters [[Berkshire]] and flows through the village of [[Colnbrook]]. South of there, it receives some water from the Poyle Channel, after which that becomes the [[Wraysbury River]] watering the west of Staines Moor. Then the Brook runs between [[Horton, Berkshire|Horton]]'s centre and another residential part of Horton on Coppermill Road adjoining [[Wraysbury Reservoir]]. Colne Brook has its end stage in the easternmost parish of the [[Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead]]. It passes [[Wraysbury railway station]] then adjoins gravel-extraction-made lakes of [[Wraysbury]], a [[Site of Special Scientific Interest]], before running into the River Thames: between the [[M25 Runnymede Bridge]] and [[Bell Weir Lock]] upstream.<ref>[http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=TQ048812] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029221924/http://getamap.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/getamap/frames.htm?mapAction=gaz&gazName=g&gazString=TQ048812 |date=29 October 2013 }} [[Ordnance survey]] website</ref>

{{Gallery
|title=<small>Images of the river and on discharge at the [[River Thames]]</small>
|width=160 | height=170 |align=center
|File:Colne Brook - geograph.org.uk - 137157.jpg | alt1=At Hythe End
|In the village of [[Colnbrook]]
|File:Colne Brook - geograph.org.uk - 156493.jpg
|South of Colnbook
|File:ColneBrook01.JPG | alt2=In Colnbrook
|On discharge at the [[River Thames]]
}}

==See also==
*[[Tributaries of the River Thames]]
*[[List of rivers of England]]

==Notes and references==
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[[Category:Thames drainage basin|1ColneBrook]]
[[Category:Rivers of Berkshire]]
[[Category:Rivers of Buckinghamshire]]