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River Dearne water levels

Live levels from 8 monitoring stations across South Yorkshire, West Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.

8stations
0above typical high

Gauges

Monitoring stations, source to mouth

StationTownLevel nowStatusTrend
Denby Dale Norman RoadDenby Dale Norman Road0.21 m 30m agoNormal—
DartonDarton0.27 m 30m agoLow▼
BarnsleyBarnsley0.21 m 30m agoNormal▲
Cundy CrossCundy Cross0.09 m 30m agoLow—
HoughtonDarfield0.15 m 30m agoNormal△
Darfield BridgeDarfield0.24 m 30m agoLow—
Bolton BridgeBolton Upon Dearne0.42 m 30m agoNormal—
AdwickHarlington0.24 m 30m agoNormal—

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 the Dearne above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.

4 gauged tributaries, 5 gauges

Baildon Dike name from the river map

Joins the Dearne between Denby Dale Norman Road and Darton, no more than 11.3 km by river above Darton.

Skelmanthorpe Park Gate0.02 m 30m agoNormal

Its water passes Darton and every gauge below it on the Dearne. It does not pass Denby Dale Norman Road or the gauges above it.

River Dove

Joins the Dearne between Darfield Bridge and Bolton Bridge, no more than 6.4 km by river above Bolton Bridge.

Worsbrough0.10 m 30m agoNormal
Stonyford Bridge0.13 m 30m ago—

Its water passes Bolton Bridge and every gauge below it on the Dearne. It does not pass Darfield Bridge or the gauges above it.

Brook Dike

Joins the Dearne between Bolton Bridge and Adwick, no more than 5.0 km by river above Adwick.

Wath upon Dearne0.09 m 30m agoLow

Its water passes Adwick and every gauge below it on the Dearne. It does not pass Bolton Bridge or the gauges above it.

Where the Dearne goes

Below Adwick, its water next reaches Mexborough Pasture Road Pumping Station, a gauge on Dearne Washlands, 2.4 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 the Dearne 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

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

  • 0 report discharging now
  • 64 not discharging
  • 3 offline or silent: 3 monitor offline, 0 status unknown, 0 no live feed

Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Adwick: 1,461 spills over 9,177 hours in total, across all 67.

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 Dearne includes the smaller streams that join it there. Every overflow traced is listed here, each stretch in full. Back to the short lists →

Above Denby Dale Norman Road, the Dearne’s highest gauge1 overflow
  • Catch Bar CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 870 m by river above Denby Dale Norman Road · 2025: 4 spills, 7.8 h
Between Denby Dale Norman Road and Darton9 overflows
  • Cuckstool Bottom CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 12.4 km by river above Darton · 2025: 57 spills, 326 h
  • Skelmanthorpe CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Park Gate Dike · 10.9 km by river above Darton · 2025: 27 spills, 180 h
  • Flockton Tank CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Flockton Beck · 10.8 km by river above Darton · 2025: 2 spills, 5.3 h
  • Spring Grove CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of River Dearne · 9.6 km by river above Darton · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Wakefield Road Scisset CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 9.6 km by river above Darton · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Park Mill CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 7.9 km by river above Darton · 2025: 43 spills, 212 h
  • Back Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Clvrt Trib Of Toad Hole Dike · 7.8 km by river above Darton · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Clayton West STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 6.9 km by river above Darton · 2025: 75 spills, 1,074 h
  • Darton Church Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 200 m by river above Darton · 2025: 26 spills, 62 h
Between Darton and Barnsley9 overflows
  • Hoylandswaine STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ellhirst Beck · 12.8 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 98 spills, 1,265 h
  • Hoylandswaine STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ellhirst Beck · 12.8 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 8 spills, 2.0 h
  • Silkstone CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Silkstone Beck · 10.0 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 14 spills, 52 h
  • Silkstone STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Silkstone Beck · 9.5 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 68 spills, 555 h
  • Clay Hall SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Unnamed Trib Of Cawthorne Dike · 8.8 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Dearne Hall Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 4.5 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 25 spills, 83 h
  • Darton STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 3.8 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 40 spills, 325 h
  • New Lodge CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Dearne · 1.9 km by river above Barnsley · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Smithies Lane Barnsley CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Dearne · 800 m by river above Barnsley · 2025: 31 spills, 80 h
Between Barnsley and Cundy Cross2 overflows
  • Old Mill Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 2.6 km by river above Cundy Cross · 2025: 17 spills, 31 h
  • Barnsley Mfi CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 2.6 km by river above Cundy Cross · 2025: 15 spills, 36 h
Between Cundy Cross and Houghton13 overflows
  • Sandybridge Lane No 3 SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Hemp Dike · 10.8 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 45 spills, 217 h
  • Pools Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Pools Dike · 9.2 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 19 spills, 99 h
  • Laithes Lane CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Cudworth Dyke · 9.0 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Lambert Road, Kendray CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Dearne · 6.7 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 2 spills, 0.8 h
  • Birk Road, Kendray CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Dearne · 6.7 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Kendray Doncaster Road CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 6.7 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 16 spills, 30 h
  • Stairfoot Grange CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Clvrt Trib River Dearne · 6.7 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 30 spills, 104 h
  • Klondyke SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of Small Bridge Dike · 6.6 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 7 spills, 14 h
  • Lundwood Sewage Pumping Station Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 6.2 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 33 spills, 143 h
  • Carrs Lane Cudworth Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Small Bridge Dike · 5.0 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 3 spills, 1.0 h
  • Engine Lane Sewage Pumping Station Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Grimethorpe Dyke · 4.2 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 16 spills, 83 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Engine Lane Sewage Pumping Station Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Grimethorpe Dyke · 4.2 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 5 spills, 16 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Cudworth STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 4.0 km by river above Houghton · 2025: 30 spills, 265 h
Between Houghton and Darfield Bridge3 overflows
  • Nanny Marr Road No. 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of River Dearne · 1.1 km by river above Darfield Bridge · 2025: 16 spills, 9.5 h
  • Nanny Marr Road No. 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of River Dearne · 1.1 km by river above Darfield Bridge · 2025: 21 spills, 16 h
  • Darfield Doncaster Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 160 m by river above Darfield Bridge · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
Between Darfield Bridge and Bolton Bridge8 overflows
  • Thurnscoe CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Thurnscoe Dike · 7.7 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 28 spills, 172 h
  • George Street Darfield No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 6.4 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Wombwell WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove And Bulling Dyke · 6.1 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 67 spills, 655 h
  • Riverside Close Darfield CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 6.0 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 27 spills, 111 h
  • Pinfold Lane Recreation CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 6.0 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 42 spills, 91 h
  • Mary Lane Darfield CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 5.4 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 34 spills, 34 h
  • Vicar Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Dove · 5.3 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 13 spills, 6.3 h
  • Darfield WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 5.2 km by river above Bolton Bridge · 2025: 45 spills, 268 h
Knoll Beck, above Manvers Old Moor Lanejoins the Dearne above Bolton Bridge4 overflows
  • Elsecar CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Knoll Beck · 4.2 km by river above Manvers Old Moor Lane · 2025: 47 spills, 195 h
  • Lundhill CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Knoll Beck · 2.1 km by river above Manvers Old Moor Lane · 2025: 34 spills, 122 h
  • Moorbridge Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Knoll Beck · 730 m by river above Manvers Old Moor Lane · 2025: 8 spills, 4.5 h
  • Pontefract Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Knoll Beck · 490 m by river above Manvers Old Moor Lane · 2025: 16 spills, 21 h
River Dove, above Worsbroughjoins the Dearne above Bolton Bridge2 overflows
  • Crane Moor STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Crane Moor Dike · 6.0 km by river above Worsbrough · 2025: 82 spills, 1,154 h
  • Silkstone Common (Moor End) SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into House Carr Dike · 5.9 km by river above Worsbrough · 2025: 25 spills, 115 h
River Dove, above Stonyford Bridgejoins the Dearne above Bolton Bridge5 overflows
  • Dark Lane Worsboro CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 5.7 km by river above Stonyford Bridge · 2025: 31 spills, 126 h
  • Edmunds Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 5.5 km by river above Stonyford Bridge · 2025: 8 spills, 21 h
  • West Street Worsbrough CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 5.5 km by river above Stonyford Bridge · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h
  • Worsbrough STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 5.3 km by river above Stonyford Bridge · 2025: 36 spills, 338 h
  • Stairfoot SPS Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove · 3.5 km by river above Stonyford Bridge · 2025: 2 spills, 0.8 h
Between Bolton Bridge and Adwick6 overflows
  • Wath Moor Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 5.1 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 17 spills, 13 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Wath Doncaster Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 4.5 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 17 spills, 13 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Yorkshire Water Services Ltd Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 4.2 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 17 spills, 67 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Mexborough East CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 2.4 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Bolton On Dearne STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 2.1 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 38 spills, 294 h
  • Bolton On Dearne STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne · 2.1 km by river above Adwick · 2025: 11 spills, 30 h
Brook Dike, above Wath upon Dearnejoins the Dearne above Adwick5 overflows
  • Wath Cemetery Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 480 m by river above Wath upon Dearne · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Stump Cross Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 480 m by river above Wath upon Dearne · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • New Hill Park CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 480 m by river above Wath upon Dearne · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Wath West Street CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike · 480 m by river above Wath upon Dearne · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · placed on the river by its position alone
  • Wath Brook Dike CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dyke · 390 m by river above Wath upon Dearne · 2025: 18 spills, 38 h · placed on the river by its position alone

Near these gauges, connection not known

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

  • Regent Street Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Trib Of River Dearne · 380 m from Barnsley in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 3 spills, 0.8 h
  • Lundwood WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dearne & Cliffe Bdg Dyke · 840 m from Cundy Cross in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 71 spills, 865 h
  • Middlecliffe Sewage Pumping Station Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Billingley Dyke · 1.0 km from Darfield Bridge in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 5 spills, 39 h
  • Barnburgh STW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Tributary Of The River Dearne · 1.1 km from Adwick in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 17 spills, 142 h
  • Lambra Road CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Sough Dyke (Culvert) · 1.1 km from Barnsley in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 53 spills, 218 h
  • Lane Hackings Green CSO Monitor offline
    Yorkshire Water · into Thorpe Dike · 1.2 km from Denby Dale Norman Road in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 6 spills, 7.8 h
  • Pontefract Road Barnsley CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Sough Dyke · 1.2 km from Barnsley in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 27 spills, 31 h
  • Ballotini Works CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Measborough Dike · 1.2 km from Cundy Cross in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 36 spills, 90 h
  • Furlong Pond No 2 CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Far Moor Dyke · 1.3 km from Bolton Bridge in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 16 spills, 51 h
  • Not Matched In Ea Consents Database Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Not Matched In Ea Consents Database · 1.5 km from Adwick in a straight line · several watercourses close by, nothing to choose between them · 2025: 3 spills, 0.8 h
  • Wath Upon Dearne WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Brook Dike/River Dearne · 1.6 km from Bolton Bridge in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 27 spills, 361 h
  • Hill Top Farm CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Ditch To The River Dearne · 1.6 km from Barnsley in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
  • Wombwell WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove And Bulling Dyke · 1.7 km from Darfield Bridge in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 60 spills, 244 h
  • Wombwell WwTW Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into River Dove And Bulling Dyke · 1.7 km from Darfield Bridge in a straight line · its recorded watercourse is not the one mapped beside it · 2025: 15 spills, 125 h
  • Carr Green CSO Not discharging
    Yorkshire Water · into Dyke To River Dearne · 1.9 km from Darton in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure · 2025: 33 spills, 107 h

13 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.

8 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Dearne’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: © 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.

58 sampling points on the River Dearne and the streams that join it above Adwick. 19 have a sample from the last 12 months; 24 have any sample banked.

Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Dearne and its streams:

Where, from the source downSampling pointsNewest sample
Above Adwick3 points1 sampled15 Feb 2024
Above Denby Dale Norman Road1 point0 samplednone banked
Above Darton10 points5 sampled27 Aug 2026
Above Barnsley14 points8 sampled10 Jun 2026
Above Cundy Cross1 point29 May 2026
River Dove and its streamsjoins the Dearne above Bolton Bridge8 points4 sampled23 Jun 2026
Above Houghton11 points2 sampled11 Sep 2026
Above Manvers Old Moor LaneKnoll Beck · joins the Dearne above Bolton Bridge4 points0 samplednone banked
Above Bolton Bridge6 points3 sampled7 Aug 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.