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Greenholme

Irthing
Eden and Esk catchment • Greenholme • Cumberland • ID: 763308 • Level
(31m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 154 views

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Current Level
0.315 m
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.336 m
24h Min
0.310 m
Typical Range
0.22 - 1.73
m
Highest Recorded
3.51 m
EA official record
3.61 in our data (since Jan 1975)
Current level is 9% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Steady over 5h
08 Oct 05:45 ▬ steady 0.315 m
08 Oct 05:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.315 m
08 Oct 05:15 ▬ steady 0.316 m
08 Oct 05:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.316 m
08 Oct 04:45 ▲ +0.3 cm 0.317 m
08 Oct 04:30 ▬ steady 0.314 m
08 Oct 04:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.314 m
08 Oct 03:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.313 m
08 Oct 03:30 ▬ steady 0.314 m
08 Oct 03:15 ▲ +0.4 cm 0.314 m
08 Oct 03:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.310 m
08 Oct 02:45 ▬ steady 0.311 m
08 Oct 02:30 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.311 m
08 Oct 02:15 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.310 m
08 Oct 02:00 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.313 m
08 Oct 01:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.311 m
08 Oct 01:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.312 m
08 Oct 01:15 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.314 m
08 Oct 01:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.313 m
08 Oct 00:45 0.314 m

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Greenholme
  • Watercourse: River Irthing
  • Nearest Town: Greenholme
  • County: Cumberland
  • Coordinates: 54°54'53"N 2°48'11"W (54.914677, -2.803045)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 8 Jan 1975
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 763308
  • RLOI id: 5183 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 763308-level-stage-i-15_min-m
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: m
  • Typical rise rate: 2 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Eden and Esk
  • Typical Range: 0.224 – 1.730 m
  • Drainage Area: 335 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 6 Oct (2 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends; unchecked, provisional) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.32 m (EA at 8 Oct 05:45)
  • Flow Archive: National River Flow Archive ↗

Geographic coordinates may reflect the access point for the gauge, and not the precise location in the watercourse that it is taking readings from.

Nearby Stations

Gauges connected to this river, and others nearby. A distance “by river” follows the river on the map; any other is in a straight line.

Connected upstream

Connected downstream

Same river system, separate branch

Distances by river: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

💧 Storm overflows upstream of this gauge

Storm overflows whose water reaches this gauge on the mapped river network, nearest first by distance along the river. The status is each water company's monitor: it says whether an overflow is discharging, not how much or what it contains.

9 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 5.5 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 7 report not discharging, and for 2 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.

💧
United Utilities · into Brampton Beck · 5.5 km upstream along the river
33 spills · 53 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Brampton Beck · 7.4 km upstream along the river
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
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United Utilities · into Castle Carrock Beck · 9.6 km upstream along the river
7 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Castle Carrock Beck · 9.8 km upstream along the river
70 spills · 125 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Milton Beck · 18.2 km upstream along the river
2 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 7 d 19 h
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United Utilities · into Milton Beck · 18.2 km upstream along the river
39 spills · 163 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Milton Beck · 19.9 km upstream along the river
43 spills · 21 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into River Irthing · 25.6 km upstream along the river
80 spills · 464 hours in 2025
Monitor offline: it cannot say whether it is discharging

1 more further upstream, up to 26.2 km away along the river.

Nearby, connection not known

Within 6 km in a straight line, but the river map cannot say whether their water passes this gauge.

💧
United Utilities · into Bye Gill · 1.9 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
6 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Trib Trout Beck · 2.9 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
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United Utilities · into Trib Trout Beck · 3.5 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
14 spills · 7 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Trib Trout Beck · 3.5 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
7 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 7 d 19 h
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United Utilities · into Trib River Irthing · 3.8 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
22 spills · 114 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Laversdale Beck · 4.4 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
9 spills · 3 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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United Utilities · into Collar Beck · 5.8 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
26 spills · 122 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

8 other overflows within 6 km are downstream of this gauge or on another branch of the river network, so they are not listed.

These are the water companies' monitor statuses; a spill does not by itself explain a change in the gauge level. River connections and distances are traced on OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small channels. Explore the sewage map →

Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Rainfall & Weather

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How often this river runs high

In a typical year this gauge reaches its typical high of 1.73 m on about 9 days. This year so far: 3 days.

2026 3 days, 3 of them high · 3 high so far
2025 10 days, 8 of them high · 8 high
2024 11 days, 5 of them high · 5 high
2023 9 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2022 3 days, 2 of them high · 2 high
2021 6 days, 4 of them high · 4 high
2020 12 days, 7 of them high · 7 high
2019 12 days, 9 of them high · 9 high
2018 5 days, 3 of them high · 3 high
2017 10 days, 7 of them high · 7 high

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 2.12 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2007 for the 9 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.6 km away).

7severe warnings 54flood warnings 0flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 13 Mar 2026 — River Eden at Warwick Holmes

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 2 0
2025 0 5 0
2024 0 11 0
2023 0 4 0
2021 0 1 0
2020 0 9 0
2018 0 1 0
2017 0 1 0
2015 7 12 0
2011 0 4 0
2009 0 3 0
2007 0 1 0

Warnings apply to a whole flood area, not necessarily this exact spot. Years before 2006 aren't covered by the EA's historic record. See also the Greenholme flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 9 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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Catchment Character

🌊 Fairly flashy Responds fairly quickly to rain, with moderate baseflow between events.

Your catchment is all the land that drains rainfall into the river above this gauge. Its character — how steep, wet, wooded, urban or chalky that land is — decides how fast rain here turns into a rising river. A steep, bare or clay catchment is “flashy” (rises and falls quickly, floods easily); a flat, chalk or well-wooded one is slow and steady. The tiles below put numbers to that; the flow-duration curve reads left-to-right from the river’s typical high flows (Q5) down to its low flows (Q95) — a steep curve means a flashy river.

The physical character of the land that drains to this gauge, and how it shapes its flood response — from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Baseflow Index
0.36
mixed response
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,169 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +9% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.3%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
155 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
199 m³/s
5 Dec 2015 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 8.1829.204.011.105% (high)% of days exceeded95% (low)
Daily flow (m³/s) exceeded each % of the time — a steep curve is flashy, a flat one is steady. Q5 high · Q50 median · Q95 low.
Land Cover (2023)
Woodland 28%Grassland 50%Arable 3%Heath/scrub 17%Urban 1%
Grassland 55% → 50% since 1990

Flow affected by: surface-water abstraction, public water supply.

Photos

Gauging-station photographs from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH).

Photos © NRFA / UKCEH & the measuring authority — shown at web resolution. Full gallery on the NRFA ↗

About this gauge

Velocity area station with non-standard shallow V weir.

More detail

The catchment

Tributaries rising in the Pennines are short, steep and flashy through heather and moorland cover. Solid geology dominated by Carboniferous L'st - outcrops on steep slopes. Extensive hill peat, Boulder Clay, and glacial sands and gravels. Land-use is moorland to arable. Some urbanisation in villages and Brampton town. Afforestation began in the 1950s, peaked in the 1970s and, by 2000, constituted almost 20% of the catchment.

The station

Velocity area station with non-standard shallow V weir (2m wide in the direction of flow) installed between February and August 1975. Originally (1967-1975), had a plastic pipe control that was effective over most of the flow range.

How it measures flow

Permanent cableway. The present shallow V control is insensitive at low levels but retains control in reasonably high flows. Thought to be affected sometimes by high levels in the River Eden. Floodplain flow occurs at very high flows. One peak flow rating applied across period of record that accounts for bypassing. Upper limb of rating developed by hydraulic modelling. Flood Studies Report grade B.

Flow regime

Medium-high flows can be affected by backing-up from the Eden. Moderately affected by Castle Carrock Reservoir and associated public water supply abstractions from the River Gelt, which controls <1% of the area.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2024 (WINFAP Files v13).

Descriptions from the National River Flow Archive (UKCEH). NRFA station record ↗

Gauge Details

How this gauging station is built and how long it has measured (NRFA / UKCEH).

Gauge type
Gauging structure
Operating since
1967
Station datum
18.4 mAOD
Flow record
1967–2024 · 57 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1967
Hydrometric area
76
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Irthing at Greenholme flooding today?

The current level is 0.32m, which is within the typical range of 0.22 to 1.73m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Greenholme?

Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently steady. The chart above shows the last 12 hours of measurements by default (up to 7 days), updated roughly every 15 minutes.

What is a normal level for the River Irthing at Greenholme?

The typical range at this station is 0.22m to 1.73m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 1.73m are higher than usually seen and may indicate a flood risk.

How often is this river level data updated?

Readings are supplied by the Environment Agency gauge. FloodRadar checks for updates roughly every 15 minutes; the timestamp above shows how recent the latest available reading is.

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