The Cut, Berkshire

The Cut is a river in England that rises in North Ascot, Berkshire. It flows for around 14mi, 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 in the nineteenth century from its original course westwards to the River Loddon via Stanlake Park south of Twyford to alleviate flood risk. 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 section from Bott Bridge (by the former Three Legged Cross PH, now a curry house) down to Jocks Lane is being converted into a new leisure area called the Cut Countryside Corridor alongside new housing and other facilities on the NW edge of Bracknell. Further downstream the river has again been dammed to create a lake in the grounds of Binfield Manor which can be viewed from the hump-back bridge carrying the Forest Road.

The Cut is a river in England that rises in North Ascot, Berkshire. It flows for around 14mi, 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 in the nineteenth century from its original course westwards to the River Loddon via Stanlake Park south of Twyford to alleviate flood risk. 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 section from Bott Bridge (by the former Three Legged Cross PH, now a curry house) down to Jocks Lane is being converted into a new leisure area called the Cut Countryside Corridor alongside new housing and other facilities on the NW edge of Bracknell. Further downstream the river has again been dammed to create a lake in the grounds of Binfield Manor which can be viewed from the hump-back bridge carrying the Forest Road.