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A wide pool on the course of the small river, the Water, that ran eastward through the Shire. The pool formed at the place where a tributary of the Water flowed down out the Northfarthing to join the main stream, just within the borders of the Westfarthing. From the eastern end of Bywater Pool, the Water continued its course eastward, eventually to reach the Brandywine on the borders of the Shire.
After the settlement of the Shire, the Hobbits established a village on banks of the pool and beside the river. This village by the Water they naturally named 'Bywater', and from this name the pool in turn became known as Bywater Pool (or, to the locals, simply 'the Pool'). The main village extended to the south of Bywater Pool, but along its northern banks were a row of old Hobbit-holes with gardens running down to the Pool's banks.