Chyandour Brook

Chyandour Brook is a small river (brook) in west Cornwall, England. Rising in Boskednan in the civil parish of Madron, Chyandour Brook drains into Mount's Bay in the English Channel at Chyandour, Penzance.[1]

Chyandour Brook in Chyandour, Penzance, after a spell of heavy rain (2010)

Course

Located entirely in the west of Cornwall, Chyandour Brook rises in the Penwith Moors in Boskednan, civil parish of Madron, and flows a southeasterly course. After flowing past the village of Madron, Chyandour Brook turns east through Heamoor, in the civil parish of Penzance. It then flows through Treneere—a residential council estate—before resuming a southeasterly course into Chyandour, where it drains into Mount's Bay in the English Channel.[1][2]

Flooding

Chyandour Brook has overflown on several occasions, with many significant flooding incidents between 2002 and 2014.[3] The Environment Agency, a non-departmental public body sponsored by the United Kingdom's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, declares most of the surrounding area of Chyandour Brook in Flood zone 3, indicating a "high probability of flooding."[4]

References
  1. Map of Land's End & Isles of Scilly: St Ives & Lizard Point (Map). 1:50,000. OS Landranger. Ordnance Survey. 25 September 2020. Retrieved 8 October 2022.
  2. Cornwall Council 2017, p. 12–13.
  3. Cornwall Council 2017, p. 13.
  4. "Chyandour Brook" (Map). Flood map for planning (PDF). 1:50:000. Cartography by Ordnance Survey. Environment Agency. 8 October 2022. p. 2. Retrieved 8 October 2022 – via the Internet Archive.

Sources

50.1250°N 5.5279°W / 50.1250; -5.5279


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