River Tove
Joins the Great Ouse between Stony Stratford and Haversham, no more than 20.7 km by river above Haversham. Nearest the Great Ouse: CAPPENHAM GS; 2 more gauges further up.
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Live levels from 33 monitoring stations across Bedford, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, City of Milton Keynes, Norfolk…, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brackley | 0.24 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 17.6 km by river | ||||
| Buckingham | 0.13 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 7.4 km by river | ||||
| Thornborough | 0.31 mASD 2h ago | Low | ||
| 8.4 km by river | ||||
| Passenham | 2.18 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 510 m by river | ||||
| Stony Stratford | 0.14 mASD 1h ago | Low | ||
| 6.3 km by river | ||||
| Haversham | 0.25 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 11.1 km by river | ||||
| Newport Pagnell | 0.20 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 410 m by river | ||||
| Newport Pagnell Cemetery | 0.21 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 12.9 km by river | ||||
| Olney | 0.07 mASD 8h ago | Low | ||
| 9.0 km by river | ||||
| Turvey | 0.28 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 13.3 km by river | ||||
| Sharnbrook | 0.18 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 22.2 km by river | ||||
| Bromham | 28.98 mAOD 1h ago | Low | ||
| 8.9 km by river | ||||
| Bedford | 0.27 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 2.6 km by river | ||||
| Cardington | 1.23 mASD 8h ago | Low | ||
| 3.1 km by river | ||||
| Castle Mill | 0.12 mASD 1h ago | Low | ||
| 9.3 km by river | ||||
| Roxton | 0.29 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 7.1 km by river | ||||
| Eaton Socon | 0.04 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| St Neots | 0.86 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 5.5 km by river | ||||
| Offord | 0.32 mASD 2h ago | Low | ||
| 5.3 km by river | ||||
| Brampton Sluicestructure | 0.14 mASD 2h ago | Normal | ||
| 2.4 km by river | ||||
| Godmanchester | 0.39 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 5.6 km by river | ||||
| Houghton | 0.25 mASD 8h ago | Low | ||
| 2.4 km by river | ||||
| Hemingford | 0.19 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 2.8 km by river | ||||
| St Ives | 0.13 mASD 8h ago | Low | ||
| 8.2 km by river | ||||
| Brownshill | 0.33 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 3.1 km by river | ||||
| Earith | 0.77 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Soham Lode | 1.61 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Sutton Gault | 0.61 mAOD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Welney Causewayplace estimated | 0.54 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| separate channels: their water meets further down | ||||
| Ely | 0.66 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Magdalen Bridgetidal | 3.42 mASD 6d ago | old reading | ||
| 8.5 km by river | ||||
| Freebridgetidal | -0.90 m 1h ago | — | ||
| 1.2 km by river | ||||
| King's Lynntidal | -0.87 mAOD 1h ago | — | ||
Also on the Great Ouse by the river map, but filed under another river name: OFFORD SLUICE AUTOMATION and OFFORD GRAFHAM INTAKE SIDELOOKER GS.
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 Great Ouse above one of its gauges, from the source down. Named streams without a gauge that have a page here are listed at the end.
Each tributary’s water passes the gauge it joins above and every gauge below it on the Great Ouse, and none of the gauges above where it joins. For each, the gauge nearest the Great Ouse is shown; its own page lists the rest.
Joins the Great Ouse between Stony Stratford and Haversham, no more than 20.7 km by river above Haversham. Nearest the Great Ouse: CAPPENHAM GS; 2 more gauges further up.
Joins the Great Ouse between Newport Pagnell Cemetery and Olney, no more than 18.0 km by river above Olney. Nearest the Great Ouse: BROUGHTON BROOK GS WITS DO NOT POLL; 1 more gauge further up. Gauged streams joining it: Broughton Brook.
Joins the Great Ouse between Newport Pagnell Cemetery and Olney, no more than 18.2 km by river above Olney. Nearest the Great Ouse: Willen Normal; 8 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Clipstone Brook.
Joins the Great Ouse between Roxton and Eaton Socon, no more than 10.2 km by river above Eaton Socon. Nearest the Great Ouse: BLUNHAM GS; 4 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: River Hiz.
Joins the Great Ouse between Eaton Socon and St Neots, no more than 6.1 km by river above St Neots. Nearest the Great Ouse: HAIL WESTON MEAGRE FARM GS.
Joins the Great Ouse between Eaton Socon and St Neots, no more than 6.1 km by river above St Neots. Nearest the Great Ouse: Hail Weston Low; 2 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: River Til.
Joins the Great Ouse between Godmanchester and Houghton, no more than 8.5 km by river above Houghton. Nearest the Great Ouse: Brampton Racecourse Low; 3 more gauges further up.
Joins the Great Ouse between Godmanchester and Houghton, no more than 8.8 km by river above Houghton. Nearest the Great Ouse: Brampton Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between St Ives and Brownshill, no more than 2.1 km by river above Brownshill. Nearest the Great Ouse: Webbs Hole Sluice Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between Earith and Soham Lode, no more than 16.0 km by river above Soham Lode. Nearest the Great Ouse: Lode Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between Earith and Soham Lode, no more than 21.4 km by river above Soham Lode. Nearest the Great Ouse: Oakington Low.
Joins the Great Ouse between Earith and Soham Lode, no more than 16.9 km by river above Soham Lode. Nearest the Great Ouse: Cambridge Baits Bite Normal; 17 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: Bin Brook and River Rhee.
Joins the Great Ouse between Earith and Soham Lode, no more than 22.1 km by river above Soham Lode. Nearest the Great Ouse: Girton Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between Sutton Gault and Ely and Magdalen Bridge, no more than 30.1 km by river above Magdalen Bridge. Nearest the Great Ouse: Welches Dam Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between Magdalen Bridge and Freebridge, no more than 50.6 km by river above Freebridge. Nearest the Great Ouse: Isleham Normal; 4 more gauges further up.
Joins the Great Ouse between Magdalen Bridge and Freebridge, no more than 45.7 km by river above Freebridge. Nearest the Great Ouse: Little Ouse Low; 6 more gauges further up. Gauged streams joining it: River Thet.
Joins the Great Ouse between Magdalen Bridge and Freebridge, no more than 34.8 km by river above Freebridge. Nearest the Great Ouse: Wissey Sluice Normal.
Joins the Great Ouse between Freebridge and King's Lynn, no more than 8.2 km by river above King's Lynn. Nearest the Great Ouse: Setchey Bridge Normal; 1 more gauge further up.
No gauge below King's Lynn 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.
162 storm overflows are traced upstream of King's Lynn, the Great Ouse’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Great Ouse itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of King's Lynn: 1,904 spills over 14,801 hours in total, across the 161 that have a figure. 1 has no 2025 figure.
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 Great Ouse includes the smaller streams that join it there. Where a stretch or a tributary has more than 3, the 2 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 3 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Buckingham, nearest first →
and 6 more: show all 8 overflows on this stretch → All above Haversham, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 10 overflows on the Tove and the streams that join it → All above CAPPENHAM GS, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 9 overflows on the Ouzel and the streams that join it → All above Willen, nearest first →
and 17 more: show all 19 overflows on the Ivel and the streams that join it → All above BLUNHAM GS, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 9 overflows on this stretch → All above Hail Weston, nearest first →
and 12 more: show all 14 overflows on the Cam and the streams that join it → All above Cambridge Baits Bite, nearest first →
and 6 more: show all 8 overflows on this stretch → All above Ely, nearest first →
and 7 more: show all 9 overflows on this stretch → All above Magdalen Bridge, nearest first →
and 2 more: show all 4 overflows on this stretch → All above Welches Dam, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above Freebridge, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 5 overflows on the Lark and the streams that join it → All above Isleham, nearest first →
and 8 more: show all 10 overflows on the Little Ouse and the streams that join it → All above Little Ouse, nearest first →
and 3 more: show all 5 overflows on this stretch → All above King's Lynn, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Great Ouse’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
50 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
2 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below the Great Ouse’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: © Anglian 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.
375 sampling points on the River Great Ouse and the streams that join it above King's Lynn. 206 have a sample from the last 12 months; 239 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Great Ouse and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above Brackley | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| River Tove and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Haversham | 9 points6 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Buckingham | 7 points6 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| River Ouzel and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Olney | 16 points8 sampled | 18 Sep 2026 |
| Above THORNBOROUGH MILL SLUICE AUTOMATION | 11 points7 sampled | 9 Sep 2026 |
| Above Passenham | 9 points6 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Haversham | 12 points10 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Broughtonan unnamed watercourse · joins the Great Ouse above Olney | 2 points | 4 Dec 2025 |
| Above Newport Pagnell | 1 point | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Newport Pagnell Cemetery | 1 point | 18 May 2026 |
| Above Olney | 6 points | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Turvey | 1 point | 18 Mar 2026 |
| Above Sharnbrook | 4 points1 sampled | 5 Aug 2026 |
| Above Bromham | 1 point | 10 Sep 2026 |
| River Ivel and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Eaton Socon | 23 points15 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Bedford | 2 points | 4 Sep 2026 |
| Above Cardington | 1 point | 21 May 2026 |
| Above Roxton | 6 points4 sampled | 10 Sep 2026 |
| River Cam and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Soham Lode | 50 points36 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Hail WestonRiver Kym · joins the Great Ouse above St Neots | 4 points3 sampled | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above Eaton Socon | 5 points | 11 Sep 2026 |
| River Little Ouse and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Freebridge | 20 points13 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above St Neots | 2 points1 sampled | 11 Sep 2026 |
| Alconbury Brook and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Houghton | 11 points8 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| River Lark and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above Freebridge | 15 points13 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above Offord | 4 points3 sampled | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Brampton Sluice | 8 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Godmanchester | 1 point | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Houghton | 3 points2 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Hemingford | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above St Ives | 2 points1 sampled | 8 Jul 2026 |
| Above LodeBottisham Lode · joins the Great Ouse above Soham Lode | 2 points | 4 Sep 2026 |
| Above Brownshill | 3 points2 sampled | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Soham Lode | 20 points11 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Sutton Gault | 3 points2 sampled | 2 Sep 2026 |
| Above Ely | 8 points6 sampled | 8 Sep 2026 |
| Above Welches DamCounter Drain · joins the Great Ouse above Magdalen Bridge | 11 points4 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Wissey SluiceRiver Wissey · joins the Great Ouse above Freebridge | 27 points16 sampled | 28 Sep 2026 |
| River Nar and its streamsjoins the Great Ouse above King's Lynn | 10 points9 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above Magdalen Bridge | 22 points7 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above Freebridge | 14 points6 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above King's Lynn | 16 points10 sampled | 17 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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