Rains Brook is a tributary of the
River Leam
The River Leam () is a river in England which rises at Hellidon Hill in Northamptonshire then flows through Warwickshire, including the town of Leamington Spa, named after it. It then flows into the River Avon near Warwick, which flows into ...
.
Formed by a series of small headwater streams midway between
Barby and
Kilsby
Kilsby is a village and civil parish in the West Northamptonshire unitary authority area of Northamptonshire, England. It is situated a short distance south of the border with Warwickshire, approximately southeast of Rugby. The parish of Kilsb ...
in
Northamptonshire
Northamptonshire ( ; abbreviated Northants.) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the East Midlands of England. It is bordered by Leicestershire, Rutland and Lincolnshire to the north, Cambridgeshire to the east, Bedfordshi ...
, it then flows west in a valley south of
Rugby on the border between Northamptonshire and
Warwickshire
Warwickshire (; abbreviated Warks) is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in the West Midlands (region), West Midlands of England. It is bordered by Staffordshire and Leicestershire to the north, Northamptonshire to the east, Ox ...
. It then runs south-west to where it joins the River Leam, between
Kites Hardwick
Kites Hardwick is a hamlet (place), hamlet in east Warwickshire, England, in the Leam Valley Wards of the United Kingdom, ward of Rugby (borough), Rugby Borough and in the civil parish of Leamington Hastings The village straddles the A426 road ...
and
Woolscott.
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See also
*List of rivers of England
This is a list of rivers of England, organised geographically and taken anti-clockwise around the English coast where the various rivers discharge into the surrounding seas, from the Solway Firth on the Scottish border to the Welsh Dee on the W ...
References
Rivers of Northamptonshire
Rivers of Warwickshire
2Rains
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