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[[File:SWC5 Course of brooks.png|left|thumb|461x461px|The course of [[Flookersbrook]], Bache Brook, and Finchett's Gutter. See: [[The coming of sewers to Hoole in the mid-19th century]].]]
[[Flookersbrook]] (the stream
"Finchett's" gutter (the Handbook spells it wrongly) is a watercourse probably formed after the canalization of the River Dee around 1754, and may take its name from John Finchett Maddock (c1775-1858) <ref>[https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1820-1832/member/finchett-maddock-john-1775-1858 History of Parliament Online]</ref>who was Town clerk of Chester (1817-57) and briefly MP for Chester in 1832. The Town Clerk writing in 1947 appears to be unaware of this.
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