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Live levels from 2 monitoring stations across North Yorkshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Viewly Bridge | 0.13 m 1h ago | Low | ||
| 11.0 km by river | ||||
| Kirby Wiskestructure | 0.17 m 1h ago | Low | ||
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 Wiske 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 Wiske above Viewly Bridge, its highest gauge, no more than 2.0 km by river above Viewly Bridge.
| Northallerton | 0.26 m 1h ago | Normal |
| 870 m by river | ||
| Romanby | 0.00 m 1h ago | Low |
Its water passes every gauge on the Wiske, from Viewly Bridge down.
Below Kirby Wiske, its water next reaches Crakehill, a gauge on River Swale, 19.3 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.
12 storm overflows are traced upstream of Kirby Wiske, the Wiske’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Wiske itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Kirby Wiske: 292 spills over 1,229 hours in total, across all 12.
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 Wiske includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Wiske’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
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.
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.
20 sampling points on the River Wiske and the streams that join it above Kirby Wiske. 3 have a sample from the last 12 months; 10 have any sample banked. Listed from the source down, grouped by the next gauge each one's water reaches.
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ing Beck at Kettlewell Farm | Ing Beck | 2.6 km | 2 Sep 2026 · 36 days ago | Oxygen 115%Temp 17.5 °CpH 8.13Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Willow Beck at Brompton | Brompton Beck | 0.3 km | 5 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 86.8%Temp 5.7 °CpH 8.07Ammonia 0.7 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Carr Beck on A19 | Carr Beck | 34 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2007, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Somerset House | River Wiske | 32 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2007, before the imported period | |
| Trenholme Stell on A19 | Trenholme Stell | 32 km | Last sampled 7 Jan 2005, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at East Rounton | River Wiske | 26 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2007, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Appleton Wiske | River Wiske | 22 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2007, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Little Smeaton | River Wiske | 17 km | 6 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 102.1%Temp 6.8 °CpH 8.25Ammonia 0.069 mg/l |
| The Stell at East Cowton | The Stell | 15 km | 6 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 93.5%Temp 8.4 °CpH 7.82Ammonia 0.1 mg/l |
| Wiske at Birkby | River Wiske | 13 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2007, before the imported period | |
| The Stell at Black Bridge | The Stell | 11 km | Last sampled 21 Dec 2021, before the imported period | |
| Wiske tributary at Danby Lane | unnamed stream | 8.5 km | 2 Sep 2026 · 36 days ago | Oxygen 62.3%Temp 15.7 °CpH 7.79Ammonia 1.3 mg/l |
| Wiske at Danby Wiske | River Wiske | 8.2 km | Last sampled 12 Mar 2020, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Yafforth | River Wiske | 2.8 km | 6 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 103.6%Temp 7.4 °CpH 8.17Ammonia 0.15 mg/l |
| Willow Beck at Romanby | Willow Beck | 1.9 km | 7 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 94.7%Temp 5.1 °CpH 7.9Ammonia 0.11 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wiske at Warlaby | River Wiske | 10 km | Last sampled 10 Feb 2011, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Warlaby Nook | River Wiske | 9.0 km | Last sampled 19 Apr 2007, before the imported period | |
| Wiske at Solberge | River Wiske | 7.1 km | 7 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 85.7%Temp 8.5 °CpH 7.98Ammonia 0.19 mg/l |
| Sike Stell at Sike Bridge | Sike Stell | 0.9 km | 5 May 2026 · 5 months ago | Oxygen 120.6%Temp 10.7 °CpH 8.36Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Wiske at Kirby Bridge - Kirby Wiske | River Wiske | 0.6 km | 7 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago | Oxygen 90.8%Temp 8.4 °CpH 8Ammonia 0.14 mg/l |
Distances are along the river to the gauge named. England's samples only.
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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