Hockley Brook

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| name = Hockley Brook

| image = Birmingham - Spaghetti Junction - Hockley Brook and Canal.jpg

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| image_caption = The brook (right) near its end, with the Birmingham & Fazeley canal alongside.

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| mouth_location = River Tame

| progression = Trent - Humber - North Sea

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| subdivision_name1 = England

| subdivision_type2 = Region

| subdivision_name2 = Birmingham

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| tributaries_right = Boundary Brook (at Black Patch Park)

| name_etymology = Hockley/ Aston

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Hockley Brook is a brook, or stream, in north Birmingham, England. It rises just outside the city, in Smethwick, and runs through Black Patch Park and then through the city's Soho, Hockley and Aston districts, to its confluence with the River Tame, beneath Gravelly Hill Interchange. From there, its waters flow, via the Trent, to the Humber Estuary and the North Sea. At the eastern end, it is known as Aston Brook, giving its name to Aston Brook Street.

It previously marked the boundary between Birmingham (then Warwickshire) and Smethwick (then Staffordshire); between the then Staffordshire country villages of Handsworth and Smethwick;Ted Rudge Brumroamin: Birmingham and Midland Romany Gypsy and Traveller Culture. Birmingham City Council Department of Leisure & Community Services (2003) and between Birmingham and Aston, before the city absorbed the latter district.

The brook once fed several mills{{cite web|url=http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~alan/family/G-AllSaints.html|title=All Saints - WAR ENG|publisher=University of Essex|accessdate=25 October 2011}} and provided water for Matthew Boulton's Soho Manufactory.{{cite web|url=http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/winsongreen.htm|title=Pubs of Winson Green in Birmingham|work=Midlands Pubs|accessdate=25 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111115212002/http://www.midlandspubs.co.uk/birmingham/winsongreen.htm|archive-date=15 November 2011|url-status=dead}}

In post-World War II years, it was culverted (buried in pipes) for much of its length.

Local historian and artist Ron "Smudge" Smith titled his 1998 autobiography A Paddle in Hockley Brook.{{Cite book

| edition = 4th

| publisher = Waveney Publ

| isbn = 0-9523849-0-6

| last = Smith

| first = Ron

| title = A Paddle in Hockley Brook

| year = 1998

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