Ewes Water
Joins the Esk above Langholm Bridge, no more than 11.6 km by river above Langholm Bridge.
| Unthank Bridge | 0.33 m 9m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Langholm Bridge.
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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across Cumberland, Dumfries and Galloway, North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Castleton | 0.09 m 24m ago | Normal | ||
| 13.4 km by river | ||||
| Lealholm | 0.11 m 24m ago | Normal | ||
| 19.9 km by river | ||||
| Briggswath | 0.35 m 24m ago | Low | ||
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Cropple Howplace estimated | 0.96 m 24m ago | Normal |
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Canonbieplace estimated | 0.90 m 24m ago | Normal |
Also on the Esk by the river map, but filed under another river name: Langholm Bridge.
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 Esk 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 the Esk above Briggswath on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
Below Briggswath, its water next reaches Whitby, a gauge on an unnamed watercourse (distance by river not measured).
No gauged tributary joins the Esk above Cropple How on the river map. Streams without a gauge are not counted here.
No gauge below Cropple How is known on the river map.
Joins the Esk above Langholm Bridge, no more than 11.6 km by river above Langholm Bridge.
| Unthank Bridge | 0.33 m 9m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Langholm Bridge.
Joins the Esk above Langholm Bridge, no more than 23.3 km by river above Langholm Bridge.
| Castle O'er | 0.73 m 9m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Langholm Bridge.
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.
17 storm overflows are traced upstream of Briggswath, the Esk’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Esk itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Briggswath: 372 spills over 1,661 hours in total, across all 17.
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 Esk includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Esk’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of Cropple How on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow.
4 storm overflows are traced upstream of Canonbie, the Esk’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Esk itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Canonbie: 798 overflow events over 3,567 hours in total, across the 3 that have a figure. 1 had no data that year. Scottish Water counts overflow events, not the 12/24-hour spills counted in England and Wales, so this total cannot be set beside theirs.
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 Esk includes the smaller streams that join it there.
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. Live status: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality. Annual figures for England: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence v3.0. Annual figures for Scotland: Scottish Water overflow event data, Open Government Licence.
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:
38 sampling points on the River Esk and the streams that join it above Briggswath, and below it. 12 have a sample from the last 12 months; 17 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Castleton | 6 points3 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Lealholm | 10 points4 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Briggswath | 21 points9 sampled | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 1 point | 17 Aug 2026 |
12 sampling points on the River Esk and the streams that join it above Cropple How. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 3 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Cropple How | 12 points3 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
No Environment Agency sampling point is placed on the River Esk or the streams above its lowest gauge on the mapped rivers. That is not the same as none: the river map leaves out many small streams.
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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