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Lower River Stour

River Stour from the A2070 at Conningbrook Manor to Fordwich, including Wye, Godmersham, Shalmsford Street, Chartham, Canterbury and Sturry

Flood alert area Great Stour, Stour Kent Kent S London and E Sussex

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Horton weir in this area

Great Stour • Chartham • 5.3 km (downstream)

structure gauge

Wye in this area

Great Stour • Wye • 5.4 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

West Gate Gardens in this area

Great Stour • Canterbury • 9.2 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Vauxhall Bridge in this area

Great Stour • Hales Place • 12.0 km (downstream)

Steady · normal

Great Stour • Great Chart • 12.7 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Fordwich River Level

Great Stour • Fordwich, Canterbury • 13.2 km (downstream)

Hothfield Upstream

Great Stour • Hothfield • 13.7 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Great Stour • Hothfield • 14.0 km (upstream)

Steady · normal

Great Stour • Upstreet • 19.3 km (downstream)

WYE GS in this area

Easing — Easing — down from 0.94 at 08:15, now 0.87

Flood Event History (29)

6 Feb 2026 at 5:36pm Flood Alert

27 Jan 2026 at 7:15pm Flood Alert

16 Jan 2026 at 2:42pm Flood Alert

8 Jan 2026 at 5:33pm Flood Alert

6 Jan 2025 at 6:52am Flood Alert

12 Mar 2024 at 11:47am Flood Alert

1 Mar 2024 at 8:27pm Flood Alert

25 Feb 2024 at 8:36pm Flood Alert

23 Feb 2024 at 8:44am Flood Alert

8 Feb 2024 at 6:47pm Flood Alert

5 Jan 2024 at 8:29am Flood Alert

4 Nov 2023 at 4:16pm Flood Alert

16 Jan 2023 at 10:44pm Flood Alert

1 Jan 2023 at 8:44pm Flood Alert

17 Nov 2022 at 7:39am Flood Alert

9 Sep 2022 at 6:58pm Flood Alert

7 Feb 2021 at 12:10pm Flood Alert

3 Feb 2021 at 3:19pm Flood Alert

28 Jan 2021 at 4:59pm Flood Alert

14 Jan 2021 at 1:39pm Flood Alert

5 Jan 2021 at 4:30pm Flood Alert

27 Dec 2020 at 1:33pm Flood Alert

4 Dec 2020 at 11:15am Flood Alert

5 Mar 2020 at 6:33pm Flood Alert

15 Feb 2020 at 8:49pm Flood Alert

20 Dec 2019 at 9:02am Flood Alert

27 Nov 2019 at 2:39pm Flood Alert

30 Apr 2018 at 6:00pm Flood Alert

3 Jan 2016 at 7:48pm Flood Alert

Related Flood Areas

Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 217027 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 064WAF6LowStour

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.