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Bedale Beck water levels

Live levels from 1 monitoring station across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

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Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
LeemingLeeming0.22 m 50m agoLow—

Stations are listed from source to mouth as the water flows, traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers) and the Environment Agency’s own links between its gauges. A distance “by river” is along the river, and is shown only where the map traces the path.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Gauged tributaries

Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins Bedale Beck above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

No gauged tributary joins Bedale Beck above Leeming on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.

Where Bedale Beck goes

Below Leeming, its water next reaches Maunby, a gauge on River Swale, 10.5 km by river downstream.

Tributaries and where they join are traced on the river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04) and the Environment Agency’s links between its gauges. The map holds distances between gauges, not the junctions themselves, so a junction is placed between two gauges, and no further up than the tributary’s own lowest gauge. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Streams without a gauge

Named streams on the river map that flow into Bedale Beck and have no gauge of their own. Each has a page with what is known about it: the next gauge downstream, and any storm overflows or water-sampling points placed on it.

Storm overflows upstream

15 storm overflows are traced upstream of Leeming, Bedale Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Bedale Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 15 not discharging
  • 0 offline or silent: 0 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Leeming: 325 spills over 1,895 hours in total, across all 15.

Each overflow is listed in the stretch above the first gauge its water reaches, from the source down, as on the Gauges tab. A stretch of Bedale Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.

Above Leeming, Bedale Beck’s highest gauge15 overflows
  • Constable Burton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Burton Beck · 18.8 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 57 spills, 544 h
  • Church Bank CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Unnamed Trib Of Hunton Beck · 18.8 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Sewage Pumping Station Low Hall Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hunton Beck · 18.6 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 9 spills, 59 h
  • Hunton STW Final Effluent Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hunton Beck · 18.2 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 63 spills, 501 h
  • Hackforth No. 2 STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bowbridge Beck · 13.7 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 31 spills, 108 h
  • Newton Le Willows STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Newton Beck · 13.7 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Newton Le Willows STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Newton Beck · 13.7 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 3 spills, 1.3 h
  • Great Crakehall SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bedale Beck · 10.8 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 17 spills, 61 h
  • Not Matched In Ea Consents Database Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Not Matched In Ea Consents Database · 5.8 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 15 spills, 9.8 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Tbc When Permit Issued Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tbc When Permit Issued · 5.8 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 16 spills, 19 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Bedale Sewage Treatment Works Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bedale Beck · 5.5 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 24 spills, 52 h
  • Bedale Sewage Treatment Works Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bedale Beck · 5.4 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 37 spills, 299 h
  • Tbc When Permit Issued Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tbc When Permit Issued · 1.9 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 16 spills, 36 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Leeming Bar CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bedale Beck · 1.7 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 8 spills, 15 h
  • Leeming Bar Sewage Treatment Works Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Bedale Beck · 1.0 km by river above Leeming · 2025: 29 spills, 190 h

Near these gauges, connection not known

Within 3 km of one of Bedale Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.

  • Northallerton Road CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Terry Gutter · 1.4 km from Leeming in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 36 spills, 297 h
  • Morton On Swale SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Swale · 2.4 km from Leeming in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 4 spills, 11 h
  • Scruton Wpc Works No live feed
    Yorkshire Water · into Common Stell · 2.6 km from Leeming in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 2 spills, 5.5 h

A status is the water company’s own monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, never how much or why, and a spill does not by itself explain a change in a river level. A status older than two hours is shown as unknown. Annual figures are the official returns: 12/24-hour spills for England and Wales, overflow events for Scotland (Scottish Water counts differently, so the two cannot be compared). “No data” means the monitor produced no usable data that year, not zero. Overflows are placed on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels: an overflow the map cannot place may still drain here. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Yorkshire Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Water samples

Dated samples taken by the Environment Agency, not live readings. Results are published days to months after the sample is taken, and many points are sampled only a few times a year, or have not been sampled for years.

6 sampling points on the Bedale Beck and the streams that join it above Leeming. 1 has a sample from the last 12 months; 3 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.

Above Leeming Bedale Beck 6 points, 3 with samples
Sampling pointWatercourse (map)Above the gaugeLast sampleLatest results (river water)
Brompton Beck at Patrick BridgeBrompton Beck14 km3 Mar 2025 · 19 months agoOxygen 115.4%Temp 8 °CpH 8.72Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l
Newton Beck at Newton BridgeNewton Beck14 kmLast sampled 2 Dec 2021, before the imported period
Bedale Beck at KirkbridgeBedale Beck9.7 kmLast sampled 9 Dec 2021, before the imported period
Scurf Beck at Crakehall IngsScurf Beck9.0 km5 Mar 2025 · 19 months agoOxygen 95.1%Temp 5.5 °CpH 8.13Ammonia 0.052 mg/l
Bedale Beck Braithwaite NurseryBedale Beck2.1 km4 Sep 2026 · 34 days agoOxygen 71.9%Temp 15.7 °CpH 8.08Ammonia 0.038 mg/l
Bedale Beck at LeemingBedale Beck1.7 kmLast sampled 9 Aug 2005, before the imported period

Distances are along the river to the gauge named. England's samples only.

FloodRadar does not grade these results: there is no overall score, and official river classifications are a separate dataset. A sample taken downstream of an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels.

Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.