The Cut, Berkshire

The Cut
River
Country	England
Counties	Berkshire
Towns	Bray, Berkshire, Binfield, Warfield, Winkfield
Source
- location	North Ascot, Bracknell Forest, Berkshire
- coordinates
Mouth	River Thames
- location	Bray, Berkshire
- coordinates
Length	23 km (14 mi)

The Cut is a river in England that rises in North Ascot, Berkshire. It flows for around 14 miles (23 km), through the rural Northern Parishes of Winkfield, Warfield and Binfield in Bracknell Forest on its way down to Bray, where it meets the River Thames just above Queens Eyot Island on the reach below Bray Lock, having been joined by the Maidenhead Waterways. The Cut is so named because it was diverted eastwards artificially from its original course westwards to the River Loddon via Stanlake Park south of Twyford. A southern tributary known locally as the Bull Brook rises in Whitmoor Bog but its course was routed through an underground pipe when the housing estate named Bullbrook was built in the 1960s. The stream emerges in what is now the Whitegrove housing area and flows north being dammed to create the lake in the grounds of Warfield House. The confluence with the North Ascot watercourse is just southwest of Warfield Church near Halo Farm. The river has had a chequered history with regard to its water quality and suffered from pollution, particularly in the 1960s, probably due to the rapid expansion of nearby Bracknell and inadequate sewage treatment by the works at Whitmoor Bog and Ryemead Lane, Winkfield. However in recent decades things have improved and the river now contains a large population of small chub, along with some roach and gudgeon in its lower reaches though it seems to have limited appeal to anglers.

See also

• Tributaries of the River Thames
• List of rivers of England

References

Next confluence upstream	River Thames	Next confluence downstream
River Wye (north)	The Cut, Berkshire	Colne Brook (north)