The Totley Brook is a stream in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England. It rises on a Millstone Grit ridge some to the south-west of the centre of Sheffield.[Ball Crossley and Flavell, (2006), p. 148] Over its course it drops from to near its junction with the Old Hay Brook[Ordnance Survey, 1:25000 map, Sheet OL24] close to Baslow Road. The streams form the River Sheaf once they have joined.
There is an estate in Dore called Totley Brook, despite the fact that it is actually situated on the Old Hay Brook.[
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The Totley Brook runs around the south of Totley through Gillfield Woods,[ flows underneath Mickley Lane, behind the Totley Rise shops and meets Old Hay behind Milldale where Totley Chemical Works once stood. The Works was run by Tinker and Siddall from 1846, and had been taken over by Thomas Kilner by 1899, who manufactured pyroligneous acid, naptha and charcoal.][ Totley Independent, Issue 317, October 2008]
In September 2014 Sheffield City Council announced plans to create a flood alleviation programme on the Totley Brook. It would consist of an embankment to create a temporary flood storage upstream of Totley. It is estimated that the facility would reduce the depth of water downstream in the River Sheaf by during periods of heavy rainfall.
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