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Live levels from 15 monitoring stations across Lincolnshire, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Witham | 0.12 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 4.6 km by river | ||||
| Colsterworth | 0.07 mASD 49m ago | Low | ||
| 12.6 km by river | ||||
| Saltersford | 0.11 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 16.7 km by river | ||||
| Hougham | 0.80 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 10.7 km by river | ||||
| Claypole | 0.16 mASD 44m ago | Normal | ||
| 26.4 km by river | ||||
| North Hykeham | 0.22 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 3.4 km by river | ||||
| Bracebridge | 0.35 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 1.4 km by river | ||||
| Bargate Weirstructure | 0.13 mASD 44m ago | Normal | ||
| 1.8 km by river | ||||
| Brayford Pool | 0.29 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 910 m by river | ||||
| Stamp End Sluicestructure | 0.88 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 11.1 km by river | ||||
| Fiskerton Sluicestructure | 0.23 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 2.1 km by river | ||||
| Bardney | 0.79 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 11.4 km by river | ||||
| Kirkstead Bridge | 0.71 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 9.6 km by river | ||||
| Chapel Hilltidal | 0.99 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
| 8.7 km by river | ||||
| Langrick Bridge | 1.24 mASD 49m ago | Normal | ||
Also on the Witham by the river map, but filed under another river name: SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS and CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM 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 Witham 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 Witham above SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS, no more than 4.7 km by river above SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS.
| CRINGLE BROOK GS GREAT PONTON | 0.05 m3/s 49m ago | — |
Its water passes SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS.
Joins the Witham between Saltersford and Hougham, no more than 6.4 km by river above Hougham.
| HONINGTON BECK GS | 0.03 m3/s 49m ago | — |
Its water passes Hougham and every gauge below it on the Witham. It does not pass Saltersford or the gauges above it.
Joins the Witham above CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM GS, no more than 14.0 km by river above CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM GS.
| ALLINGTON GS WITSplace estimated | 0.01 m3/s 49m ago | — |
| Allingtonplace estimated | 0.04 mASD 49m ago | Normal |
Its water passes CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM GS.
Joins the Witham between Claypole and North Hykeham, no more than 7.7 km by river above North Hykeham.
| BRANT BROUGHTON GS | 0.02 m3/s 49m ago | — |
| order between these two not confirmed | ||
| Brant Broughton | 0.07 mASD 49m ago | Normal |
| 4.5 km by river | ||
| Horseshoe Bridge | 0.24 mASD 44m ago | Normal |
Its water passes North Hykeham and every gauge below it on the Witham. It does not pass Claypole or the gauges above it.
Joins the Witham between Fiskerton Sluice and Bardney, no more than 9.8 km by river above Bardney.
| Langworth | 0.12 m 49m ago | Normal |
| 50 m by river | ||
| LANGWORTH BRIDGE GS | 0.08 m3/s 49m ago | — |
Its water passes Bardney and every gauge below it on the Witham. It does not pass Fiskerton Sluice or the gauges above it.
Joins the Witham between Fiskerton Sluice and Bardney, no more than 7.6 km by river above Bardney.
| STAINFIELD BECK GS | 0.02 m3/s 49m ago | — |
| 80 m by river | ||
| Stainfield Beck | 0.06 mASD 49m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Bardney and every gauge below it on the Witham. It does not pass Fiskerton Sluice or the gauges above it.
Joins the Witham between Kirkstead Bridge and Chapel Hill, no more than 7.7 km by river above Chapel Hill.
| Billinghay | 0.53 mASD 49m ago | Normal |
Its water passes Chapel Hill and every gauge below it on the Witham. It does not pass Kirkstead Bridge or the gauges above it.
Below Langrick Bridge, its water next reaches Hobhole Sluice, a gauge on The Haven, 14.5 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.
26 storm overflows are traced upstream of Langrick Bridge, the Witham’s lowest gauge on the river map: on the Witham itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Langrick Bridge: 570 spills over 6,028 hours in total, across all 26.
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 Witham includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of the Witham’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: © 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.
109 sampling points on the River Witham and the streams that join it above Langrick Bridge. 56 have a sample from the last 12 months; 76 have any sample banked.
Sampled most recently, anywhere on the Witham and its streams:
| Where, from the source down | Sampling points | Newest sample |
|---|---|---|
| Above North Witham | 3 points1 sampled | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Above Colsterworth | 1 point | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above CRINGLE BROOK GS GREAT PONTONCringle Brook · joins the Witham above SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS | 5 points4 sampled | 7 Sep 2026 |
| Above SALTERSFORD RAINGAUGE WITS | 3 points2 sampled | 1 Sep 2026 |
| Above Saltersford | 1 point | 6 Mar 2025 |
| Above HONINGTON BECK GSHonington Beck · joins the Witham above Hougham | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above ALLINGTON GS WITSFoston Beck · joins the Witham above CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM GS | 1 point | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Hougham | 6 points3 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above CLAYPOLE MILL R WITHAM GS | 6 points5 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| River Brant and its streamsjoins the Witham above North Hykeham | 6 points4 sampled | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Above North Hykeham | 9 points7 sampled | 16 Sep 2026 |
| Above Bracebridge | 1 point0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Bargate Weir | 3 points2 sampled | 10 Jul 2026 |
| Above Brayford Pool | 4 points3 sampled | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Barlings Eau and its streamsjoins the Witham above Bardney | 19 points14 sampled | 1 Oct 2026 |
| Above STAINFIELD BECK GSStainfield Beck · joins the Witham above Bardney | 2 points0 sampled | none banked |
| Above Fiskerton Sluice | 1 point | 6 Mar 2026 |
| Above Bardney | 14 points11 sampled | 17 Sep 2026 |
| Above Kirkstead Bridge | 5 points3 sampled | 15 Sep 2026 |
| Above BillinghayBillinghay Skirth · joins the Witham above Chapel Hill | 11 points6 sampled | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above Chapel Hill | 6 points | 14 Sep 2026 |
| Above Langrick Bridge | 1 point | 14 Jul 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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