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Live levels from 8 monitoring stations across Leicestershire, Lincolnshire, North Northamptonshire, Rutland, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Market Harborough | 0.14 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 16.6 km by river | ||||
| Ashley | 0.04 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| Great Easton Flood Storage Reservoirtidalstructureplace estimated | 0.31 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 25.7 km by river below Ashley | ||||
| Tixover | 0.17 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| 15.6 km by river | ||||
| Hudds Mill | 0.14 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 6.0 km by river | ||||
| Tallington | 0.40 mASD 1h ago | Normal | ||
| downstream, distance by river not measured | ||||
| Market Deeping | 0.08 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
| 1.9 km by river | ||||
| Deeping St James | 0.96 mASD 8h ago | Normal | ||
Also on the Welland by the river map, but filed under another river name: BARROWDEN GS and TINWELL GS WITS.
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 Welland 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 Welland between Market Harborough and Ashley, no more than 4.5 km by river above Ashley.
| Medbourne Flood Storage Reservoirstructure | 0.27 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
| 1.3 km by river | ||
| Medbourne | 0.03 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Ashley and every gauge below it on the Welland. It does not pass Market Harborough or the gauges above it.
Joins the Welland between Market Harborough and Ashley, no more than 16.3 km by river above Ashley.
| Litte Bowden Flood Storage Reservoirstructure | 0.26 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
| 350 m by river | ||
| Little Bowden | 0.05 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes Ashley and every gauge below it on the Welland. It does not pass Market Harborough or the gauges above it.
Joins the Welland between Market Harborough and Ashley, no more than 16.3 km by river above Ashley.
| RIVER JORDAN GS | 0.03 m3/s 1h ago | — |
Its water passes Ashley and every gauge below it on the Welland. It does not pass Market Harborough or the gauges above it.
Joins the Welland above BARROWDEN GS, no more than 21.9 km by river above BARROWDEN GS.
| Stockerston Road Bridge | 0.05 mAOD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes BARROWDEN GS.
Joins the Welland above TINWELL GS WITS, no more than 8.5 km by river above TINWELL GS WITS.
| Fosters Bridge | 0.10 mASD 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes TINWELL GS WITS.
Joins the Welland between Hudds Mill and Tallington, no more than 10.1 km by river above Tallington.
| RYHALL PSsensor suspect | -10.00 Ml/d 8h ago | — |
| 420 m by river | ||
| BELMESTHORPE GS GSM | 0.24 m3/s 1h ago | — |
Its water passes Tallington and every gauge below it on the Welland. It does not pass Hudds Mill or the gauges above it.
Below Deeping St James, its water next reaches Fosdyke Bridge, a gauge on Five Towns Drain (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.
32 storm overflows are traced upstream of Deeping St James, the Welland’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Welland itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Deeping St James: 858 spills over 6,070 hours in total, across all 32.
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 Welland 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 7 more: show all 10 overflows on this stretch → All above Ashley, nearest first →
and 2 more: show all 5 overflows on the Gwash and the streams that join it → All above BELMESTHORPE GS GSM, nearest first →
Within 3 km of one of the Welland’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
4 more near these gauges whose connection is not known.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below the Welland’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.
107 sampling points on the River Welland and the streams that join it above Deeping St James, and below it. 47 have a sample from the last 12 months; 57 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Welland and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| River Jordan and its streamsjoins the Welland above Ashley | 6 points1 sampled | 6 Mar 2025 |
| Above Market Harborough | 5 points2 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above Medbourne Flood Storage ReservoirMedbourne Brook · joins the Welland above Ashley | 7 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Stockerston Road BridgeRiver Eye Brook · joins the Welland above BARROWDEN GS | 4 points3 sampled | 3 Sep 2026 |
| Above Ashley | 28 points16 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| River Gwash and its streamsjoins the Welland above Tallington | 11 points7 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above BARROWDEN GS | 12 points5 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above Tixover | 1 point | 10 Mar 2025 |
| Above Fosters BridgeRiver Chater · joins the Welland above TINWELL GS WITS | 9 points5 sampled | 21 Sep 2026 |
| Above TINWELL GS WITS | 10 points6 sampled | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Above Hudds Mill | 1 point | 7 Aug 2026 |
| Above Tallington | 5 points | 10 Sep 2026 |
| Above Deeping St James | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Below the lowest gauge | 7 points5 sampled | 7 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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