It reappears down the western side of the nature reserve of Westport Lake, but is culverted again beneath Longport, where it is joined by its only named tributary, the Scotia Brook which flows down from Tunstall.

[4] It then flows past the foot of the Middleport Allotments and on through the low Eturia valley through the new Enterprise Zone and alongside the Festival Park site.

The brook then finally flows to the east, joining the River Trent near the Stoke Minster church, though today the confluence is beneath the dual carriageway of the A500.

In the Victorian period the discharges from the heavier industrial processes, and especially the effluent from a sewage works, meant that the brook and River Trent in the Potteries became heavily polluted.

In Tunstall, prior to the opening of a sewage works in 1878, legal action had been threatened due to the continued pollution of the canal and the brook.

[9] Improvements made to the brook and its adjacent environment in the 2000s and 2010s meant that it is classed as having 'moderate' ecological quality under the Water Framework Directive.