Talk:River Slea, Hampshire

Confusion

This article is more or less identical to the Oakhanger Stream and Kingsley Stream articles and appears to have confused the three water courses and so appears somewhat incoherent. I am hoping to sort them out in the near future. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 10:19, 22 June 2020 (UTC)

I have been looking only at maps, not other sources. 1:25000 explorer c2000 has the name Oxney Stream at 51.134 -0.868 below KIngsley Mill and immediately upstream to the RH tributary coming from Oxney Pool. On NLS OS 25inch 1896 Oxney stream is written in the same place but Mill Tail is additionaly written along the same stream just below Kingsley Mill.

Oxney Moss is written in blue parallel to the tributary stream (suggesting it is the name of the stream not a bog) at (51.123 -0.870) upstream of Oxney Pool.

I am not sure that can be definitive as locals may have had it different and the OS were lazy.SovalValtos (talk) 15:10, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

That is the problem! A google search has coming with virtually nothing and different map scales give different results. In addition the name is sometimes also applied to a section of the River Slea upstream of Sleaford. Unfortunately the DoE website hs no information at all. One of the few things I have established is that the area marked Oxney Moss used to be a bog and later water meadows. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 16:32, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

@SovalValtos: Going through the maps again, I think the stream may actually be a tributary of the Oakhanger stream, rather than directly into the Slea. The Enviroment Agency Catchment Data Explorer makes it clear that the Slea extends west of Kingsley and the Oakhanger joins just above Kingsley Mill. There is no information on the Oxney Stream on the CDE, though the OS maps label the Slea above Sleaford with the name. Oxley Moss, as SovalValtos mentions above, is actually another, smaller, tributary. I'm taking the Environment Agency as the definitive version of which water course is which. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 17:49, 8 July 2020 (UTC)

Now found a cite for the stream, it is actually, as shown on the OS maps, the section of the River Slea between Kingsley and Sleaford. Murgatroyd49 (talk) 08:00, 9 July 2020 (UTC)

Quite! Having not come across this discourse before our Wey improvements, the EA data is more shoddy than combining the OS Victorian maps in most places, as the EA don't really "do" winterbourne piddles above the mill. The fact they purport it to be a reliable "Data Explorer" smacks of a nasty recent-data bias.- Adam37 Talk 18:11, 31 August 2020 (UTC)