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They started to melt and retreatĪnd produced a great deal of water carrying a rocky detritus. The glaciers covering much of the country 10,000 years agoĪlso covered what is now North Oxfordshire. Rest on a bed of Marlstone rock formed many millions of years ago during the In geological terms, the parishes of Shenington and Alkerton Making a hefty fall over its length of 105 metres (340 feet). Height of the Sor Brook at this point is 70 metres (225 feet) above sea level, The Sor Brook then continues almost due east to join the River Cherwell,Īlongside the River Swere, at the county boundary with Northamptonshire. Were, until merger in 1971, the separate parishes of East and West Adderbury. To three parishes: it makes Adderbury’s boundary with Bloxham and divides what The Brook then flows south east to the parish ofīodicote before dropping south to Adderbury. North Oxfordshire, passing close to Broughton Castle where it acts as a It flows in a generally south-eastern direction across The source is just inside theĬounty boundary north-east of Sugarswell Farm at a height of 175 metres (570įeet) above sea level. Little over a mile and a half north of Shenington and acts as a boundaryīetween Shenington and neighbouring Alkerton. The Sor Brook rises in the North Oxfordshire Heights a Adderbury’sĮighteenth-century mill was of the breast-shot type. Paddles at breast height and hence with more force) or over-shot. Wheel: the mill could be under-shot (with the water passing under the wheel andĭriving the paddles upwards), breast-shot (with the flow of water striking the Mills differed in terms of how the water drove the water Revenue generated by the mill being an important element in the manorial lord’s Manorial watermill was an integral part of the manorial system, with the The main purpose of water mills was to grind corn into flourįor baking bread millers could also be involved in the brewing of beer. Of watermills in North Oxfordshire, with ten of the roughly fifty watermills in Foreman’s map shows a very high concentration

Many of which were mentioned in the Domesday Survey of 1086, suggesting that (Phillimore, 1983), records in excess of two hundred watermills in the county, Hendon was in Middlesex and Totteridge in Hertfordshire, and the brook was thus also the boundary between the two counties.Wilfred Foreman in his definitive book, Oxfordshire Mills Until 1965 the brook marked the boundary between the boroughs of Hendon to the south and Totteridge to the north. Folly Brook then goes under Southover to meet Dollis Brook not far from Woodside Park Underground station, connecting it with the Dollis Valley Greenwalk.įolly Brook and Darland's Lake Nature Reserve are a Site of Borough Importance for Nature Conservation, Grade I. A footpath alongside the brook starts close to the Darland's noticeboard east of the lake, and goes through woods to grassland between Burtonhole Lane and Pasture and Woodridge Nature Reserve, where it is joined by its tributary, Burtonhole Brook. The lower part of the brook from Darland's Lake through Folly Brook Valley to the junction with Dollis Brook is public open space.

Darland's Lake was originally ornamental, created by damming the brook, but the lake and surrounding woods are now a nature reserve. From Highwood Hill to Darland's Lake Nature Reserve the brook passes through private land which is not open to public access, apart from a short section next to a footpath through Folly Farm. Folly Brook rises near the bottom of Highwood Hill, Mill Hill, and flows east through fields and public open spaces to Woodside Park.