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The Latchmore Brook is a significant stream in the New Forest, Hampshire, England. It rises from the elevated gravel plateaus in the north of the Forest, north of Fritham, and drains into the River Avon north of Ibsley.

The stream's catchment is open heathland, deciduous woodland, silvicultural inclosures and, in its lower reaches, small scale pastoral farmland; as such there are no consistent sources of pollution and the stream's course and character has largely remained free from artificial modification. Historically, the greatest human impact on the brook was connected to the Schultze Gunpowder Factory which was established in the 1860s at Eyeworth Lodge near Fritham. The factory required large volumes of water and this demand was met by damming the brook to create a reservoir (which still survives as Eyeworth Pond). The problem of sulphuric and nitric acid discharges contaminating the river, killing fish, only ended when the factory closed in the 1920s.

50°53′42″N 1°47′18″W / 50.8950°N 1.7883°W / 50.8950; -1.7883

v t e Hydrology of Hampshire
Main rivers main tributaries & sub-tributaries	River Loddon Blackwater River Whitewater River Hart Fleet Brook Cove Brook Bow Brook River Itchen River Alre Candover Brook Monks Brook River Test River Anton Blackwater Bourne Rivulet or Swift River Dever River Dun River Wey River Slea or Oxney Stream Oakhanger Stream Kingsley Stream All others Avon Water River Avon Bartley Water Beaulieu River Dark Water River Ems River Hamble Lymington River River Meon River Rother Tanner's Brook River Wallington
Canals and navigations	Andover Canal Basingstoke Canal Itchen Navigation Portsmouth and Arundel Canal Salisbury and Southampton Canal Titchfield Canal
Ordinary watercourses	Latchmore Brook Pillhill Brook West End Brook
Lakes, ponds and wetlands	Chessel Bay Eyeworth Pond Farlington Marshes Fleet Pond Keyhaven, Pennington, Oxey and Normandy Marshes Lakeside Country Park Manor Farm duck pond Sowley Pond Testwood Lakes Waggoners Wells
Coast	Chichester Harbour Langstone Harbour Portsmouth Harbour The Solent Southampton Water
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