Candover Brook

Candover Brook

The Candover Brook is a 1.2km chalk streamcite book |url=http://www.english-nature.org.uk/lifeinukrivers/publications/crayfish_monitoring.pdf |title=Monitoring the white-clawed crayfish "Austropotamobius pallipes" |publisher=English Nature |author=Stephanie Peay |year=2003 |id=ISBN 1-85716-727-9] in the English county of Hampshire. It is a tributary of the River Itchen, which it joins near the town of New Alresford. The stream rises from springs just to the south of the village of Preston Candover [cite news |url=http://www.prestoncandoverandnutley-pc.gov.uk/about/history_of_preston_candover_and_nutley.asp |title=History of Preston Candover and Nutley |publisher=Preston Candover and Nutley Parish Council |date=2005-08-15] .

It is one of the few rivers remaining in southern England that is home to the endangered native white-clawed crayfish.

Candover Brook is part of the Itchen Valley Countryside Heritage Area recognising the distinctive features and biological richness of this area [http://www.hants.gov.uk/scrmxn/c5954.html Proposal for Itchen Valley Countryside Heritage Area] - Hampshire County Council] .

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