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LITTON CHENEY DL

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• ID: E16529 • Flow
(54m ago) • 1 reading/hr • 34 views
Current Flow
0.066 m3/s
▬ Steady
24h Max
0.069 m3/s
24h Min
0.065 m3/s
Typical Range
-
Highest Recorded
0.13 m3/s
2 Aug 2026
Since Aug 2026
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Recent Flow Readings

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Recent Readings

Steady over 8h
20 Sep 07:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 06:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 05:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 04:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 03:00 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.068 m3/s
20 Sep 02:45 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 02:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 02:15 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.068 m3/s
20 Sep 02:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 01:45 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 01:30 ▲ +0.3 cm 0.069 m3/s
20 Sep 01:15 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 01:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 00:45 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 00:30 ▲ +0.2 cm 0.068 m3/s
20 Sep 00:15 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
20 Sep 00:00 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
19 Sep 23:45 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
19 Sep 23:30 ▬ steady 0.066 m3/s
19 Sep 23:15 0.066 m3/s

Rainfall & Weather

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Flood history near this gauge

Official Environment Agency warnings issued since 2006 for the 15 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 2.2 km away).

3severe warnings 196flood warnings 354flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 8 Feb 2026 — Upper Frome at Maiden Newton

Year by year
YearSevereWarningsAlerts
2026 0 7 5
2025 0 10 13
2024 0 24 24
2023 0 33 18
2022 0 11 25
2021 0 7 7
2020 0 7 30
2019 0 12 28
2018 0 15 39
2017 0 12 24
2016 0 17 36
2015 0 4 24
2014 2 15 46
2013 0 6 17
2012 1 9 9
2011 0 0 9
2009 0 1 0
2007 0 4 0
2006 0 2 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.

Nearby Stations

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Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: LITTON CHENEY DL
  • Watercourse: —
  • Nearest reservoir: Sutton Bingham (21.0 km) · 62.0% full (as of 27 Jul 2026)
  • Coordinates: 50°42'39"N 2°38'20"W (50.710956, -2.638891)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: Flow gauging station (inferred)
  • Station Reference: E16529
  • Also at this site: Litton Cheney (44112, level, reporting)
  • EA Gauge ID: E16529-flow-water-i-15_min-m3_s
  • Parameter: Flow
  • Unit: m3/s
  • 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
  • Drainage Area: 35 km² upstream of this gauge
  • 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.

Catchment Character

🌊 Groundwater-fed Slow and steady — fed largely by groundwater, so levels change gradually, not in sudden spikes.

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
0.89
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
1,141 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +6% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
0.5%
largely rural
Median Annual Flood
1.02 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
2.91 m³/s
14 Dec 2000 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.1880.8080.0870.0215% (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 5%Grassland 46%Arable 47%Urban 2%
Grassland 50% → 46% since 1990

Photos

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

11 Jul 2019 — View downstream from gauging station 11 Jul 2019 View downstream from gauging station 11 Jul 2019 — View upstream from gauging station 11 Jul 2019 View upstream from gauging station 11 Jul 2019 — View downstream to gauging station 11 Jul 2019 View downstream to gauging station 11 Jul 2019 — View upstream to gauging station 11 Jul 2019 View upstream to gauging station 4 Nov 2011 — Weir and stage board 4 Nov 2011 Weir and stage board 4 Nov 2011 — Looking upstream to gauging station 4 Nov 2011 Looking upstream to gauging station 4 Nov 2011 — Looking downstream to gauging station 4 Nov 2011 Looking downstream to gauging station View downstream from gauging station View downstream from gauging station Looking upstream to gauging station Looking upstream to gauging station

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

About this gauge

Flat V crump weir built in 1992.

More detail

The catchment

Predominantly Lower Chalk with small outcrops of Middle and Upper Chalk forming higher ground flanking the catchment. Mainly pastoral with some arable agriculture on flatter ground. No major catchment changes.

The station

The station was built in 1992 with a Flat V Crump weir structure, 3.0m wide.

How it measures flow

No evidence of bypassing but culvert upstream may interfere and surcharge at high flows causing ponding upstream and may cause attenuation of flood peak. All flows remain in bank, good fit to check gaugings. Can have lower flow than upstream station due to abstraction. One peak flow rating applied across period of record.

Flow regime

Subject to public abstraction.

The flow record

Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7) and in September 2023 (WINFAP Files v12).

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
Flat-V weir
Operating since
1993
Flow record
1993–2024 · 31 yrs · 100% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1992
Hydrometric area
44
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is LITTON CHENEY DL flooding today?

The latest recorded level is 0.07m. Compare it with the recent history on the chart above to judge whether levels are unusually high.

Is the river level rising or falling at LITTON CHENEY DL?

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.

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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