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Live levels from 5 monitoring stations across City of Bristol, Dorset, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maiden Newton | 0.22 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 17.4 km by river | ||||
| Louds Mill | 0.09 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Stinsford | 0.04 m 1h ago | Low | ||
| 25.2 km by river | ||||
| East Stoke | 0.60 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Wade Streetplace estimated | 5.96 mAOD 1h ago | Normal |
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 Frome 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 Frome above Maiden Newton, its highest gauge, no more than 7.9 km by river above Maiden Newton.
| Hooke | 0.12 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Frome, from Maiden Newton down.
Joins the Frome between Maiden Newton and Louds Mill, no more than 16.7 km by river above Louds Mill.
| Sydling St Nicholas | 0.07 mASD 1h ago | Low |
Its water passes Louds Mill and every gauge below it on the Frome. It does not pass Maiden Newton or the gauges above it.
Joins the Frome between Stinsford and East Stoke, no more than 10.3 km by river above East Stoke.
| Winfrith | 0.13 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes East Stoke and every gauge below it on the Frome. It does not pass Stinsford or the gauges above it.
Below East Stoke, its water next reaches Wareham, 10.4 km by river downstream.
Joins the Frome above Bristol Wade Street, its highest gauge, no more than 1.7 km by river above Bristol Wade Street.
| Chipping Sodbury | 0.34 mASD 1h ago | Low |
| 7.3 km by river | ||
| Tubbs Bottom | -0.06 mASD 1h ago | Low |
| 2.5 km by river | ||
| Frampton Cotterell | 0.02 m 1h ago | Low |
| 8.2 km by river | ||
| Frenchay | 0.21 mASD 1h ago | Low |
| 5.2 km by river | ||
| Eastville | 7.51 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on the Frome, from Bristol Wade Street down.
Below Bristol Wade Street, its water next reaches Bristol Harbour Passage Street, a gauge on Bristol Frome (distance by river not measured).
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.
13 storm overflows are traced upstream of East Stoke, the Frome’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Frome itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of East Stoke: 374 spills over 5,488 hours in total, across all 13.
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 Frome includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Frome’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
31 storm overflows are traced upstream of Bristol Wade Street, the Frome’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Frome itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Bristol Wade Street: 535 spills over 1,984 hours in total, across all 31.
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 Frome includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 4, the 3 discharging now or nearest its gauge are listed, the rest are counted, and every one is in that gauge’s “Upstream of here” list. Show every overflow in every stretch →
and 10 more: show all 13 overflows on this stretch → All above Bristol Wade Street, nearest first →
and 15 more: show all 18 overflows on the Bristol Frome and the streams that join it → All above Eastville, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Frome’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
36 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Frome’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: © 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:
51 sampling points on the River Frome and the streams that join it above East Stoke, and below it. 13 have a sample from the last 12 months; 20 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Louds Mill | 16 points9 sampled | 3 Jul 2026 |
| Above East Stoke | 20 points6 sampled | 9 Jul 2026 |
| Above HookeRiver Hooke · joins the Frome above Maiden Newton | 3 points1 sampled | 12 Dec 2024 |
| Above Maiden Newton | 10 points3 sampled | 1 May 2026 |
| Below the lowest gauge | 2 points1 sampled | 5 Aug 2026 |
14 sampling points on the River Frome and the streams that join it above Bristol Wade Street. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 8 have any sample banked.
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Bristol Frome and its streamsjoins the Frome above Bristol Wade Street | 13 points8 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Bristol Wade Street | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
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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