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Live levels from 3 monitoring stations across West Yorkshire, Westmorland and Furness, updated every 15 minutes.
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Allotmentsplace estimated | 0.10 m 1h ago | Low |
These gauges are filed under the Town Beck, but the river map places them on another watercourse, so they are not in Town Beck’s order above.
| Town Beck Debris Screenstructureon Gill Banks Beck | 0.05 m 1h ago | Normal | ||
| How it relates to Town Beck is not known. | ||||
| Station | Level now | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Addingham, Town Beckplace estimated | 0.08 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 Town Beck above one of its gauges, from the source down. The river map knows where gauges are, not every stream, so a tributary without a gauge is not listed here.
Joins Town Beck above Allotments, its highest gauge, no more than 1.1 km by river above Allotments.
| Town Beck Debris Screenstructure | 0.05 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on Town Beck, from Allotments down.
No gauge below Allotments is known on the river map.
Joins Town Beck above Addingham, Town Beck, its highest gauge.
| Kettlewell | 0.49 m 1h ago | Normal |
| 8.1 km by river | ||
| Netherside Hall | 0.78 m 1h ago | Normal |
Its water passes every gauge on Town Beck, from Addingham, Town Beck down.
Below Addingham, Town Beck, its water next reaches Addingham, a gauge on River Wharfe, 2.1 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.
1 storm overflow is traced upstream of Allotments, Town Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Town Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflow traced upstream of Allotments: 4 spills over 6.3 hours.
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 Town Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.
Within 3 km of one of Town Beck’s gauges in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water reaches it.
1 other overflow within 3 km of these gauges is placed below Town Beck’s lowest gauge or on another river, so not listed.
2 storm overflows are traced upstream of Addingham, Town Beck, Town Beck’s lowest gauge on the river map: on Town Beck itself, on its gauged tributaries, and on smaller streams that join above there.
Official figures for 2025, for the overflows traced upstream of Addingham, Town Beck: 90 spills over 162 hours in total, across all 2.
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 Town Beck includes the smaller streams that join it there.
4 other overflows within 3 km of these gauges are placed below Town Beck’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: © United Utilities storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. 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.
No Environment Agency sampling point is placed on the Town Beck or the streams above its lowest gauge on the mapped rivers. That is not the same as none: the river map leaves out many small streams.
20 sampling points on the Town Beck and the streams that join it above Addingham, Town Beck, and below it. 9 have a sample from the last 12 months; 11 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) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Oughtershaw Beck below Oughtershaw sewage treatment works | Oughtershaw Beck | 17 km | Last sampled 25 Jan 2022, before the imported period | |
| Oughtershaw Beck at Beckermonds | Oughtershaw Beck | 16 km | 21 Aug 2026 · 48 days ago | Oxygen 103%Temp 12.9 °CpH 8.15Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Greenfield Beck at Beckermonds | Green Field Beck | 16 km | 21 Aug 2026 · 48 days ago | Oxygen 107.1%Temp 13.7 °CpH 8.29Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Cray Gill upstream of Cray | Cray Gill | 12 km | 10 Aug 2026 · 59 days ago | Oxygen 105.1%Temp 14.1 °CpH 8.52Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Strans Gill upstream of Wharfe confluence | Strans Gill | 11 km | 9 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 103.1%Temp 8.9 °CpH 7.7Ammonia 0.0042 mg/l |
| Kettlewell Beck | Kettlewell Beck | 1.0 km | Last sampled 7 Dec 2018, before the imported period | |
| Wharfe upstream of Kettlewell Beck | River Wharfe | 0.4 km | 10 Aug 2026 · 59 days ago | Oxygen 99.4%Temp 14 °CpH 8.25Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Wharfe at Kettlewell downstream of Kettlewell Beck | River Wharfe | 0.2 km | 10 Aug 2026 · 59 days ago | Oxygen 103.6%Temp 13.7 °CpH 8.39Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skirfare downstream of Halton Gill | River Skirfare | 13 km | 6 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 104.9%Temp 4.5 °CpH 8.53Ammonia 0.011 mg/l |
| Hesleden Beck at Nether Hesleden | Hesleden Beck | 12 km | Last sampled 11 May 2013, before the imported period | |
| Skirfare upstream of Heselden Beck | River Skirfare | 12 km | 8 Sep 2026 · 30 days ago | Oxygen 100.1%Temp 11.7 °CpH 8.06Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Skirfare 2.7 km upstream of Arncliffe | River Skirfare | 8.3 km | 6 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago | Oxygen 101.8% Nov 2023Temp 9.4 °C Nov 2023pH 8.25 Nov 2023Ammonia 0.016 mg/l Nov 2023 |
| Cowside Beck at Arncliffe | Cowside Beck | 5.9 km | 8 Sep 2026 · 30 days ago | Oxygen 107.4% Aug 2026Temp 10.6 °CpH 8.47 Aug 2026Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Skirfare upstream of Cowside Beck | River Skirfare | 5.8 km | Last sampled 28 Apr 2017, before the imported period | |
| Cote Gill at Hawkswick | Cote Gill | 3.2 km | 15 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago | Oxygen 99.6%Temp 8.4 °CpH 8.11Ammonia below 0.03 mg/l |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Above the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skirfare at Skirfare Bridge | River Skirfare | 5.8 km | Last sampled 25 Sep 2023, before the imported period | |
| Wharfe at Conistone Bridge | River Wharfe | 3.0 km | Last sampled 2 Mar 2022, before the imported period | |
| White Beck upstream of Wharfe confluence | White Beck | 2.3 km | Last sampled 20 Sep 2023, before the imported period |
| Sampling point | Watercourse (map) | Below the gauge | Last sample | Latest results (river water) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Town Beck upstream of Old Vicarage Bridge Addingham | Town Beck | 1.2 km | Last sampled 25 Jan 2022, before the imported period | |
| Town Beck downstream of Low Mill Lane CSO | Town Beck | 1.6 km | Last sampled 20 Sep 2023, before the imported period |
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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