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Hillingdon, Gutteridge Wood

Yeading Brook
Crane catchment • Hillingdon • Greater London • ID: 3625TH • Level
(33m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 133 views

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Current Level
0.232 mASD
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.243 mASD
24h Min
0.232 mASD
Typical Range
0.08 - 2.30
mASD
Highest Recorded
4.49 mASD
9 Jul 2013
Since Mar 1994
Current level is 5% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -0.4 cm over 5h
09 Oct 22:30 ▬ steady 0.232 mASD
09 Oct 22:15 ▬ steady 0.232 mASD
09 Oct 22:00 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.232 mASD
09 Oct 21:45 ▬ steady 0.233 mASD
09 Oct 21:30 ▬ steady 0.233 mASD
09 Oct 21:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.233 mASD
09 Oct 21:00 ▬ steady 0.234 mASD
09 Oct 20:45 ▬ steady 0.234 mASD
09 Oct 20:30 ▬ steady 0.234 mASD
09 Oct 20:15 ▬ steady 0.234 mASD
09 Oct 20:00 ▬ steady 0.235 mASD
09 Oct 19:45 ▬ steady 0.235 mASD
09 Oct 19:30 ▬ steady 0.235 mASD
09 Oct 19:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.235 mASD
09 Oct 19:00 ▬ steady 0.236 mASD
09 Oct 18:45 ▬ steady 0.236 mASD
09 Oct 18:30 ▬ steady 0.236 mASD
09 Oct 18:15 ▬ steady 0.236 mASD
09 Oct 18:00 ▬ steady 0.236 mASD
09 Oct 17:45 0.236 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Hillingdon, Gutteridge Wood
  • Watercourse: Yeading Brook
  • Nearest Town: Hillingdon
  • County: Greater London
  • Coordinates: 51°32'52"N 0°25'13"W (51.547719, -0.420185)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Jan 1993
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 3625TH
  • RLOI id: 7271 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 3625TH-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 9 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Crane
  • Typical Range: 0.078 – 2.300 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 21 km² upstream of this gauge
  • Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 28 Apr (164 days behind — the EA publishes each day's mean a day or two after it ends) via EA Hydrology
  • EA Cross-check: 0.23 mASD (EA at 9 Oct 22:15)
  • 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

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Connected downstream

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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.

2 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 6.1 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 1 reports not discharging, and for 1 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.

💧
Thames Water · into N/A · 6.1 km upstream along the river
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Status unknown — the live feed has not updated for 58 d 10 h
Placed on the river by its position alone.
💧
Thames Water · into N/A · 6.6 km upstream along the river
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now
Placed on the river by its position alone.

1 other overflow within 6 km is downstream of this gauge or on another branch of the river network, so it is 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

This gauge rarely reaches its typical high of 2.30 m: 0 days since 2017. This year so far: 0 days.

2026 0 days so far
2025 0 days
2024 0 days
2023 0 days
2022 0 days
2021 0 days
2020 0 days
2019 0 days
2018 0 days
2017 0 days

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out.

Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2008 for the 5 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 1.3 km away).

2flood warnings 64flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 23 Sep 2024 — Yeading Brook East at South Ruislip

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2025 0 2
2024 1 3
2023 0 1
2022 0 2
2021 0 5
2020 0 4
2019 0 8
2018 0 5
2017 0 11
2016 1 10
2015 0 2
2014 0 1
2013 0 2
2012 0 2
2011 0 1
2010 0 2
2009 0 2
2008 0 1

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 Hillingdon flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 5 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

Catchment Character

🌊 Urban & flashy Heavily built-up — rain runs off hard surfaces fast, so levels can spike within hours of heavy rain.

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
0.17
flashy — rain runs off fast
Avg Annual Rainfall
677 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +0% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
51%
heavily urbanised
Highest Daily Mean Flow
4.98 m³/s
23 Jun 2016 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.1870.7720.0640.0225% (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 1%Grassland 22%Urban 76%
Grassland 26% → 22% since 1990

About this gauge

The station is located on the Yeading Brook, West London.

More detail

The catchment

Largely impervious suburban catchment in NW London.

The station

Rectangular flume.

The flow record

Flow data in January 2003 under review - minimum appears unrealistically low.

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
Flume
Operating since
1994
Station datum
31.6 mAOD
Flow record
1994–2024 · 30 yrs · 100% complete
Hydrometric area
39
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the Yeading Brook at Hillingdon, Gutteridge Wood flooding today?

The current level is 0.23m, which is within the typical range of 0.08 to 2.30m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Hillingdon, Gutteridge Wood?

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.

Why is the level slowly falling?

When little or no rain has fallen for a while, a river level gradually drops as the water stored in the ground and soil drains away with nothing to replace it. This is called baseflow recession and is normal in dry spells. Only about 0.0mm of rain has fallen nearby in the last 7 days, so the flow is being sustained mainly by groundwater. A gentle decline like this is expected and is not a sign of a problem — downstream gauges often recede a little faster than headwaters further upstream, and levels recover once rain returns.

What is a normal level for the Yeading Brook at Hillingdon, Gutteridge Wood?

The typical range at this station is 0.08m to 2.30m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 2.30m 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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