River Leck
The River Leck is a 7.5 mile 12.070km long river in Buckinghamshire and Northamptonshire it is a small tributary of the River Great Ouse.
Course
The River Leck rises from a spring next to silverstone circuit near Whittlebury park golf course near Silverstone and flows through Shrines wood and Shirehill Wood and past Lovel wood it then flows past St Nicholas Church at lillingstone Dayrell. The Leck then flows through Leckhampstead and past Weatherhead Farm the river then flows under a bridge that used to serve as a Aqueduct to carry the buckingham arm of the grand union canal over the river but now most of the canal is now disused and dried up and filled in and the bridge now carries A422 Bedford to Worcester road over the river the leck then flows just over half a mile 1km before flowing into the Great Ouse at Thornton.
Wildlife
The River Leck is home to fish such as the stone loach the common minnow and sticklebacks there is also signal crayfish in the river with most of the crayfish being small in size with a small number of larger ones there is also a range of other wildlife such as swans ducks and many types of water insects.
Coordinates: 52°02′06″N 0°56′26″W / 52.03500°N 0.94056°W
