Taken from the Wild Trout Trust Blog:
As a national charity, our work takes us to all kinds of interesting places. This autumn, we had the pleasure of visiting a historic institution: the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in Surrey. The Academy is most famous for the Officer training it provides to the British Army and over 90 armed forces worldwide. But the 600-acre estate also contains a hidden gem – a River Blackwater tributary called the Wish Stream.
Running for 4.5 kilometres through Surrey and Berkshire, much of the stream snakes through the Academy’s extensive woodland. Below it lies a mixed geology of sand, clay, and gravel, with high iron levels that give the water its slight acidity and reddish-brown tint. However, like rivers all over the country, the Academy’s stretch of the Wish Stream has been heavily modified over the years.
The full article can be read here: https://www.wildtrout.org/wttblog/wish-granted-saving-a-stream-at-sandhurst
