4-609: Rains Brook is a 11.8-kilometre-long (7.3 mi) tributary of the River Leam . Formed by a series of small headwater streams midway between Barby and Kilsby in Northamptonshire , it then flows west in a valley south of Rugby on the border between Northamptonshire and Warwickshire . It then runs south-west to where it joins the River Leam, between Kites Hardwick and Woolscott . This Northamptonshire location article
8-482: Is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This Warwickshire location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . This article related to a river in England is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . River Leam The River Leam ( / l ɛ m / ) is a river in England which rises at Hellidon Hill in Northamptonshire then flows through Warwickshire , including
12-435: The river systems in England. Each is given an overall ecological status, which may be one of five levels: 'high', 'good', 'moderate', 'poor' or 'bad'. There are several components that are used to determine this, including biological status, which looks at the quantity and varieties of invertebrates , angiosperms and fish. Chemical status, which compares the concentrations of various chemicals against known safe concentrations,
16-505: The town of Leamington Spa , named after it. It then flows into the River Avon near Warwick , which flows into the River Severn . The name is first recorded in 956 as Limenan , and derives from British Lemanā , meaning "elm-tree river". Its major tributaries are Rains Brook , River Itchen , River Stowe and Radford Brook . The Environment Agency measures the water quality of
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