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Whitewell Brook at Piercy and Newchurch from Ashworth Road to Wood Lea Road

Properties adjacent to Brook including Globe, Dale, Gaghills, Mill End and Albion Mills. Waterfoot Business Centre. Properties on Burnley Road East, Rose, Booth and Clarke Holme Streets, the Close and Thornfield Avenue including the bakery

Flood warning area Whitewell Brook Lancashire Gtr Mancs Mersey and Ches In Upper River Irwell catchment with Oldham, Bolton, Rochdale, Haslingden, Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Thornfield Avenue in this area
Whitewell Brook • Rossendale • 0.6 km (downstream)
Steady · normal
0.41 m
22min ago
Holt Mill Bridge
River Irwell • Waterfoot • 1.0 km
Steady · normal
0.21 m
22min ago
Rawtenstall
Limey Water • Rawtenstall • 2.5 km
Steady · normal
0.19 m
22min ago
Throstle Mill
River Irwell • Bacup • 3.2 km
Steady · normal
0.49 m
22min ago
Folly Clough Brook
Folly Clough • Crawshawbooth, Rossendale • 3.7 km
structure gauge
0.35 m
22min ago
Irwell Vale
River Irwell • Edenfield • 5.2 km
Steady · normal
0.38 m
22min ago
Little Bridge
Ogden Brook • Helmshore • 5.7 km
Steady · normal
0.08 m
22min ago
Stubbins
River Irwell • Stubbins • 5.9 km
Steady · normal
0.18 m
22min ago
Ramsbottom Weir
River Irwell • Ramsbottom • 7.0 km
structure gauge
0.36 m
22min ago
Portsmouth Lennox Road
River Calder • Portsmouth • 7.2 km
Steady · normal
0.50 m
22min ago

Flood Event History (9)

20 Sep 2025 at 8:20pm Flood Warning
31 Dec 2024 at 11:17pm Flood Warning
5 Dec 2024 at 4:52pm Flood Warning
23 Nov 2024 at 12:08pm Flood Warning
10 Dec 2023 at 11:35pm Flood Warning
20 Jan 2021 at 3:37pm Flood Warning
15 Feb 2020 at 7:22pm Flood Warning
9 Feb 2020 at 8:11am Flood Warning
21 Oct 2017 at 6:20pm Flood Warning

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 143018 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 013FWFL54

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.