Glastonbury is less than across the River Brue from Street, which is now larger than Glastonbury.

Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue and Sharpham Park approximately west of Glastonbury, that dates back to the Bronze Age.

Glastonbury Lake Village was an Iron Age village, close to the old course of the River Brue, on the Somerset Levels near Godney, some north west of Glastonbury.

A Saxon-era canal connected the abbey to the River Brue.

Glastonbury is less than across the River Brue from the village of Street.

The plain is actually reclaimed fenland out of which the Tor once rose like an island, but now, with the surrounding flats, is a peninsula washed on three sides by the River Brue.

To the north of Street is the River Brue, which marks the boundary with Glastonbury.

The River Brue marks the boundary with Glastonbury to the north of the town.

The concept for the Huntspill River was first suggested by J. Aubrey Clark in 1853, as a way of improving the drainage of the lower River Brue.

Once the entire flow of the South Drain was entering the Huntspill river, the section which had originally run northwards from Gold Corner to the River Brue became redundant.

In addition to the rivers, Parrett, Brue and Washford several of the man-made drainage ditches, including the River Huntspill, from the Somerset Levels, including the " Pawlett Hams ", also drain into the bay.

The GHQ Line ran from the northern end of the Taunton Stop Line near Highbridge in Somerset, along the River Brue and the Kennet and Avon Canal to Reading, around the south of London south of Guildford and Aldershot, to Canvey Island and Great Chesterford in Essex, before heading north to end in Yorkshire.

Apex Leisure and Wildlife Park, in the south-west corner of Burnham-on-Sea, north of the River Brue, occupies an area of more than.

The first Glastonbury Canal was built about the middle of the 10th century to link the River Brue with Glastonbury Abbey, a distance of about.

In the early 4th millennium BC the track was built between an island at Westhay, and a ridge of high ground at Shapwick close to the River Brue.

The area was hit by severe floods in 1794, as a result of which the Commissioners of Sewers obtained the Brue Drainage Act in 1801, which allowed them to improve the course of the River Brue by the straightening of major loops at Highbridge and East Huntspill, and to construct the North and South Drains, which collected water from the peat moorlands and channelled it into the lower River Brue.

He considered two main routes ; the first followed the course of the River Brue, but was rejected on the grounds of engineering costs, and the interference with its drainage function.

The second route followed the newly-constructed South Drain, to connect with the River Brue near Cripps Bridge, and to re-use the old course of that River at Highbridge to create a basin.

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