Slad Brook

Slad Brook
Slad Brook enters the Thames and Severn Canal through the arch on the left of Stroud Brewery Bridge, Wallbridge
Location within Gloucestershire
Location
CountryEngland
CountiesGloucestershire
Physical characteristics
Source 
  locationRuscombe
  coordinates51°46′46″N 2°09′46″W / 51.7795°N 2.1629°W / 51.7795; -2.1629 (Source in Longridge Wood)
Mouth 
  location
Thames and Severn Canal
  coordinates
51°44′39″N 2°13′16″W / 51.7443°N 2.2212°W / 51.7443; -2.2212 (Thames and Severn Canal)
Basin features
Tributaries 
  leftDillay Brook
Slad Brook
Dillay Brook source, Famish Hill
spring at Nottingham Scrubs
Slad Brook source, Longridge Wood
spring at High Wood
pond
spring at Piedmont
site of Streanbridge Mill
site of Lower Steanbidge Mill
site of Wyatt's Mill
site of Upper Vatch Mill
site of Vatch Mill
Slad Lane
site of Slad Mill
Hazel Mill
site of Wade's Mil
site of Peghouse Mill
site of New Mill
site of Little Mill
start of culvert under Stroud
site of Badbrook Mill
Thames and Severn Canal
site of Cuttles Mill (on old route)
River Frome
Wallbridge Lower Lock
Stroudwater Navigation
River Frome

Slad Brook is a small river in Gloucestershire, England. It rises in woodland to the north of Down Hill, and to the south of the village of Sheepscombe. It heads in a southerly and south-westerly direction through open countryside until it reaches the north-easterly edge of Stroud. It is then culverted beneath the town. Formerly it was a tributary of the River Frome, but was diverted into the Thames and Severn Canal as part of flood defence works shortly after the canal was abandoned in 1954.