The traditional name of the stream that flows into the River Itchen at Swaythling. The name appears to derive from the traditional lordship of North Stoneham, of which this stream is the boundary, by Hyde Abbey, Winchester. A pre-Conquest name is ‘Mearcebroc’ or Boundary brook.


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