The Water Valey
The Shire-water, or just the Water, (Originally "Fairwater", "Formensiril" or "Northwater") was a pretty little river that ran from the Wychwood, through the lakes of Mistvale, breaching the White Downs at Little Delving, then wandering across the Westfarthing through Rushock Bog, past Hobbiton; through the Eastfarthing to the Brandywine just above the Bridge of Stonebows. The Fairwater Valley boasted some of the finest soils in Eriador. Flooding was relatively mild in the spring, and the swamps along the lower reaches of the river were neither extensive nor haunted.
The gentle valleys and rolling hills along this river were the heartland of the Shire. So much land along the banks of the Water had been cleared for farms that flooding had becomes a problem every spring; several of the villages along its lower reaches were protected by dikes and canals. The vale of the Water contained the densest population of Hobbits in the Shire right into the Fourth Age.
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- MERP:the Shire