The name Hebble is a back formation from the local dialect word for a narrow, short planked bridge.

[4] The water is surrounded by 24 hectares (60 acres) of mixed conifer and broad leafed nature reserve[5] that attracts 300,000 visitors a year.

[7] The Middle Grain Beck and Carrs Beck flow into Hebble Brook, from the land around Halifax golf course, at Brookhouse, just south of Ogden Reservoir; it then continues south past Mixenden, where various small springs and old quarry workings add to the water volume.

The brook heads south past Ovenden and Wheatley and flows underground in Brackenbed Sports Park.

Thereafter it flows under and above ground intermittently (picking up Ovenden Brook in the Lee Bridge area)[1] until it reaches Sedburgh Road in Halifax.