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Broadway Foot

Name: Broadway Foot River Level Data
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Rye

Derwent catchment • Hawnby • North Yorkshire • ID: F2508 • Level

13:15 (21m ago) • 3 readings/hr • 119 views

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Current Level

0.070 m

▬ Steady

24h Max

0.078 m

24h Min

0.070 m

Typical Range

0.08 - 0.40

Highest Recorded

3.53 m

EA official record

1.38 in our data (since Aug 1977)

Current level is 2% of this

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Recent Water Levels

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Prediction V2

Prediction Eris

Nimbus beta

Experimental model fusing soil moisture, river flow, groundwater and catchment character. The shaded band is its 10–90% range, widened so that about 80% of recent outcomes fall inside it. Under evaluation — not yet promoted, so treat as a second opinion.

River Flow

90 days

Daily mean discharge (m³/s) with the daily min–max band, from the EA Hydrology API. Flow is the volume of water passing the gauge — often a more direct flood signal than level.

Long Term

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Days Above Normal

This year vs 5-year monthly range

Recent Readings

Steady over 5h

10 Oct 13:15 ▬ steady 0.070 m

10 Oct 12:45 ▬ steady 0.070 m

10 Oct 12:30 ▬ steady 0.070 m

10 Oct 12:15 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.070 m

10 Oct 12:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.072 m

10 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady 0.071 m

10 Oct 11:30 ▬ steady 0.071 m

10 Oct 11:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.071 m

10 Oct 11:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.072 m

10 Oct 10:45 ▬ steady 0.071 m

10 Oct 10:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.071 m

10 Oct 10:15 ▬ steady 0.072 m

10 Oct 10:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.072 m

10 Oct 09:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.071 m

10 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady 0.072 m

10 Oct 09:15 ▬ steady 0.072 m

10 Oct 09:00 ▲ +0.1 cm 0.072 m

10 Oct 08:45 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.071 m

10 Oct 08:30 ▬ steady 0.072 m

10 Oct 08:15 0.072 m

Station Details

Monitoring Station: Broadway Foot
Watercourse: River Rye
Nearest Town: Hawnby
County: North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°17'16"N 1°8'29"W (54.287705, -1.141251)
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Date Opened: 23 Aug 1977
Status: Active
Station Type: River level station

Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive

Station Reference: F2508
RLOI id: 8033 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
EA Gauge ID: F2508-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: Derwent
Typical Range: 0.075 – 0.401 m
Drainage Area: 132 km² upstream of this gauge
Flow Data: Daily mean flow (m³/s) to 8 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: 0.07 m (EA at 10 Oct 12:45)
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 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

None of the storm overflows FloodRadar holds is traced upstream of this gauge on the mapped river network. That is not the same as none: the map leaves out many small streams and culverts, so an overflow it cannot place may still drain here, and not every company publishes every overflow. Those nearby are listed below.

Nearby, connection not known

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

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Cold Kirby No2 STW

Yorkshire Water · into Unnamed Trib Grass Keld · 4.5 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map

14 spills · 90 hours in 2025

Not discharging now · last 8 Oct 2026

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 0.40 m on about 24 days. This year so far: 12 days.

2026 12 days, 2 of them high · 2 high so far

2025 22 days, 1 of them high · 1 high

2024 27 days, 3 of them high · 3 high

2023 27 days, 4 of them high · 4 high

2022 10 days

2021 36 days, 5 of them high · 5 high

2020 26 days, 5 of them high · 5 high

2019 28 days, 5 of them high · 5 high

2018 16 days, 3 of them high · 3 high

2017 20 days, 3 of them high · 3 high

Counted from each day's highest reading. Days with missing or implausible readings are left out. The darker part is days above 0.89 m, the level this gauge tops only a few days a year.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. This is the area linked to this gauge, nearest first.

River Rye and Borough Beck at Helmsley7.0 km away

Catchment Character i

🌊 Steep & flashy Steep catchment sheds rain quickly — expect fast, sharp rises after 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). What does this mean?

Baseflow Index

0.42

mixed response

Avg Annual Rainfall

1,013 mm/yr

1991–2020 · +8% since 1941–70

Urban Extent

0.1%

largely rural

Median Annual Flood

38.86 m³/s

QMED — typical yearly peak flow

Highest Daily Mean Flow

69.00 m³/s

7 Mar 1999 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak

Flow-Duration Curve

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 12%Grassland 34%Arable 1%Heath/scrub 53%

Heath/scrub 56% → 53% since 1990

Photos

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

About this gauge

Limited range Crump weir with ultrasonic gauge for high flows.

More detail

The catchment

Predominantly upland catchment draining the Cleveland Hills. Geology of Jurassic beds of Oolite and Lias, dipping southwards. The Liassic beds (mostly shales) form an intier in the upper part of the catchment with the sandstones and shales of the overlying Estuarine series forming the high ground around the catchment. No known catchment changes.

The station

Limited range Crump profile weir, 15m wide with 0.4m high walls. Ultrasonic gauge installed in 2003 to improve measurement of non-modular flows. Station severely damaged by extreme flood in June 2005 - ultrasonics washed away. Wingwall extended and ultrasonic replaced in July 2007. D/s levels are measured.

How it measures flow

Wing walls were rebuilt and raised to 1.4m in 2002. No cableway for check gauging but ADCP is now used at high flows. One peak flow rating across period of record based on ultrasonic data and gaugings up to to 50 cumecs with hydraulic modelled limbs above this. Very good agreement with ultrasonic gauge well beyond QMED.

Flow regime

Responsive catchment. Sensibly natural regime, no known artificial influences.

The flow record

Earlier flows may have small under-estimation, although still well contained within banks up to 2.3m stage, so minimal bypass apart from the June 2005 extreme flood. Hydraulic model estimated extreme flood peak in June 2005 to be 384 cumecs (representing a monumental event). Data missing June-October 2005 and during reconstruction (19-06-2006 to 06-07-2007). Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in October 2018 (WINFAP Files v7).

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

Crump weir

Operating since

1974

Station datum

37.7 mAOD

Flow record

1974–2024 · 50 yrs · 96% complete

Peak-flow record

since 1974

Hydrometric area

Measured by

Environment Agency

Nearby Groundwater

Soil Moisture

Possible storm-overflow correlation

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Rye at Broadway Foot flooding today?

The current level is 0.07m, which is below the typical range. Flooding is very unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Broadway Foot?

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 Rye at Broadway Foot?

The typical range at this station is 0.08m to 0.40m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.40m 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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