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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across Devon, Dorset, Somerset, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winsham | 0.80 m 1h ago | Low | ||
| 3.3 km by river | ||||
| Forde Abbey | 0.44 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.3 km by river | ||||
| Weycroft Bridge | 0.44 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.8 km by river | ||||
| Whitford Bridge | 0.26 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Wookeyplace estimated | 0.36 mASD 1h ago | Low |
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.
Streams and rivers with a gauge whose water joins the Axe above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Joins the Axe between Weycroft Bridge and Whitford Bridge, no more than 10.2 km by river above Whitford Bridge.
| Axminster Wilhay Lane | 0.11 m 1h ago | Low |
Its water passes Whitford Bridge and every gauge below it on the Axe. It does not pass Weycroft Bridge or the gauges above it.
Joins the Axe between Weycroft Bridge and Whitford Bridge, no more than 19.0 km by river above Whitford Bridge.
| Court Place Farm | 0.36 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Whitford Bridge and every gauge below it on the Axe. It does not pass Weycroft Bridge or the gauges above it.
Below Whitford Bridge, its water next reaches Seaton, 7.8 km by river downstream.
No gauged tributary joins the Axe above Wookey on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
No gauge below Wookey is known on the river map.
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.
15 storm overflows are traced upstream of Whitford Bridge, the Axe’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Axe itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Whitford Bridge: 745 spills over 5,173 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 the Axe includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Axe’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
7 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Axe’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Wookey, the Axe’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Axe itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Wookey: 32 spills over 42 hours in total, across all 2.
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 the Axe includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Axe’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
3 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Axe’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.
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: © South West Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Live status: © Wessex 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.
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.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on these rivers and their streams:
66 sampling points on the River Axe and the streams that join it above Whitford Bridge. 29 have a sample from the last 12 months; 43 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Winsham | 14 points11 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Forde Abbey | 1 point | 3 Mar 2026 |
| Above Court Place FarmRiver Yarty · joins the Axe above Whitford Bridge | 4 points | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Above Weycroft Bridge | 21 points11 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Whitford Bridge | 26 points16 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
13 sampling points on the River Axe and the streams that join it above Wookey, and below it. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 8 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Wookey | 4 points1 sampled | 6 Aug 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 9 points7 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
England's samples only. Each count opens the list of those points, nearest first, with the date of each one’s latest sample (the gauge’s “Upstream of here” list).
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.
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