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Back Brook, English Midlands

watercourse in Shropshire and Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2021
Entity authorityQ4839073 ↗
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The Back Brook is a minor watercourse in the English counties of Shropshire and Staffordshire, in places forming the boundary between the two, and located generally to the east/southeast of the town of Newport. It flows into Aqualate Mere.

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The public source identifies “Back Brook, English Midlands” as watercourse in Shropshire and Staffordshire, England, United Kingdom. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Back, Brook and English.

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This entry incorporates text from “Back Brook, English Midlands” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.