Hoffer Brook

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Hoffer Brook
Hoffer Brook near Foxton
Location
Country	United Kingdom.
Counties	Cambridgeshire
Settlements	Thirplow, Newton, Foxton
Continent	Europe
Constituent Country	England
Physical characteristics
Source
• location	Thirplow
2nd source
• location	Heathfield
3rd source
• location	Foxton
Mouth	River Rhee
• location	Harston
Basin features
Progression	River Rhee → Great Ouse → North Sea
Tributaries
• right	.

Hoffer Brook is a tributary of the river Rhee which is 8 km (5.0 mi) long. It is located in Cambridgeshire county.

Course

It rises in a chalk aquifer near Thriplow and it is 8km. Another source of the brook rises north of Heathfield, next to the M11. It flows through Newton and the B1368. Additionally, another source of the brook rises east of Foxton. It then traverses through the A10 to join the River Rhee.

History

A Scheduled monument of an Iron Age to a Roman settlement is situated south-east of the brook. A cropmark includes a group of rectilinear enclosures arranged alongside two ditch-defined trackways which form a forked junction north of the settlement. The main trackway, along which enclosures are arranged, extends for 515m on a south east to north west alignment with a width of 12m.

Water quality

The Environment Agency measures the water quality of the river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: high, good, moderate, poor and bad. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates, angiosperms and fish; chemical status, which compares the concentration of various chemicals against known safe concentrations. Chemical status is rated good or fail.

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