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Church Warsop

Meden
Idle and Torne catchment • Market Warsop • Nottinghamshire • ID: 4032 • Level
(36m ago) • 4 readings/hr • 176 views

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Current Level
0.203 mASD
▼ Easing (-2cm/hr)
24h Max
0.229 mASD
24h Min
0.185 mASD
Typical Range
0.15 - 0.80
mASD
Highest Recorded
1.80 mASD
EA official record
1.79 in our data (since Jan 1970)
Current level is 11% of this
🚽 Sewage overflows nearby

Recent Water Levels

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Recent Readings

Falling · -2 cm over 6h
10 Oct 13:00 ▼ -0.5 cm 0.203 mASD
10 Oct 12:45 ▼ -0.3 cm 0.208 mASD
10 Oct 12:30 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.211 mASD
10 Oct 12:15 ▬ steady 0.213 mASD
10 Oct 12:00 ▬ steady 0.213 mASD
10 Oct 11:45 ▬ steady 0.213 mASD
10 Oct 11:30 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.213 mASD
10 Oct 11:00 ▬ steady 0.214 mASD
10 Oct 10:45 ▬ steady 0.214 mASD
10 Oct 10:30 ▬ steady 0.214 mASD
10 Oct 10:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.214 mASD
10 Oct 09:45 ▬ steady 0.215 mASD
10 Oct 09:30 ▬ steady 0.215 mASD
10 Oct 09:15 ▼ -0.1 cm 0.215 mASD
10 Oct 09:00 ▬ steady 0.216 mASD
10 Oct 08:45 ▬ steady 0.216 mASD
10 Oct 08:30 ▬ steady 0.216 mASD
10 Oct 08:00 ▼ -0.2 cm 0.216 mASD
10 Oct 07:30 ▬ steady 0.218 mASD
10 Oct 07:15 0.218 mASD

Station Details

  • Monitoring Station: Church Warsop
  • Watercourse: River Meden
  • Nearest Town: Market Warsop
  • County: Nottinghamshire
  • Nearest reservoir: Ogston (19.7 km) · 61.5% full (as of 5 Oct 2026)
  • Coordinates: 53°12'22"N 1°9'56"W (53.206134, -1.165417)
  • Open in: Google Maps · Apple Maps (opens your maps app)
  • Date Opened: 1 Jan 1970
  • Status: Active
  • Station Type: River level station
Technical details: references, datum, range, flow archive
  • Station Reference: 4032
  • RLOI id: 2186 (the EA's check-for-flooding station id)
  • EA Gauge ID: 4032-level-stage-i-15_min-mASD
  • Parameter: Level
  • Unit: mASD
  • Typical rise rate: 8 cm/hr (p95 sustained over 90 days)
  • Typical data delay: ~22 min (measured reading→publication lag)
  • Tidal: No
  • Lock / structure: No
  • Catchment Area: Idle and Torne
  • Typical Range: 0.150 – 0.800 mASD
  • Drainage Area: 63 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: 0.21 mASD (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 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.

10 storm overflows are traced upstream of this gauge, the nearest 3.5 km away along the river. 0 report discharging now, 9 report not discharging, and for 1 the monitor is offline or has not reported, so their status is not known.

💧
Severn Trent Water · into Shire Brook · 3.5 km upstream along the river
13 spills · 74 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Severn Trent Water · into Shire Brook · 3.5 km upstream along the river
8 spills · 9 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 6.4 km upstream along the river
4 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 7.9 km upstream along the river
7 spills · 6 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 8.5 km upstream along the river
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Skegby Brook · 12.3 km upstream along the river
38 spills · 114 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
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Severn Trent Water · into Skegby Brook · 12.3 km upstream along the river
37 spills · 253 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
Placed on the river by its position alone.
💧
Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of River Meden · 12.7 km upstream along the river
6 spills · 1 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last

2 more further upstream, up to 13.2 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.

💧
Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 40 m away in a straight line · too close to the gauge to say which side
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 40 m away in a straight line · too close to the gauge to say which side
12 spills · 4 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 40 m away in a straight line · too close to the gauge to say which side
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into River Meden · 40 m away in a straight line · too close to the gauge to say which side
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of River Meden · 2.7 km away in a straight line · no mapped watercourse close enough to be sure
30 spills · 164 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into Trib Of River Meden · 2.9 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
1 spill · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
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Severn Trent Water · into The Bottoms, Trib Of River Meden · 3.9 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
15 spills · 57 hours in 2025
Not discharging now · last
💧
Severn Trent Water · into Tributary Of Leas Brook · 3.9 km away in a straight line · its watercourse is not on the river map
0 spills · 0 hours in 2025
Not discharging now

11 more within 6 km whose connection is not known.

10 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 0.80 m on about 1 day. This year so far: 1 day.

2026 1 day so far
2025 1 day
2024 4 days
2023 3 days
2022 0 days
2021 0 days
2020 1 day
2019 2 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 2012 for the 7 flood areas linked to this gauge (nearest 4.2 km away).

39flood warnings 220flood alerts

Most recent flood warning: 31 Aug 2026 — River Maun at Sherwood Forest Caravan Park near Kings Clipstone

Year by year
YearWarningsAlerts
2026 10 40
2025 1 17
2024 8 29
2023 12 28
2022 0 14
2021 2 10
2020 3 9
2019 3 25
2018 0 13
2017 0 3
2016 0 9
2015 0 6
2014 0 6
2013 0 4
2012 0 7

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 Market Warsop flood history.

Flood areas linked to this gauge

Flood warnings and alerts are issued for whole areas. These are the 7 areas linked to this gauge, nearest first.

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
0.82
groundwater-fed — slow & steady
Avg Annual Rainfall
759 mm/yr
1991–2020 · +7% since 1941–70
Urban Extent
9.7%
partly urbanised
Median Annual Flood
4.92 m³/s
QMED — typical yearly peak flow
Highest Daily Mean Flow
17.63 m³/s
20 Oct 2023 · daily mean, not the instantaneous peak
Flow-Duration Curve
mean 0.6001.400.4640.2415% (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 11%Grassland 29%Arable 40%Urban 19%Other 1%
Grassland 15% → 29% since 1990

Flow affected by: groundwater abstraction, effluent returns, industrial / agricultural abstraction.

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

Non-standard pre 2015. Flat-V from 2015 onwards.

More detail

The catchment

Ribbon-like, SW-NE catchment of moderate relief, rising on Magnesian Limestone, subordinate Permian Marl and Sherwood Sandstone. Mining was dominant industry; many spoil tips. Sutton in Ashfield in headwaters, also part of Mansfield Woodhouse.

The station

Flat-V weir installed in Jan 2015 to replace the trapezoidal flume built in 1964. 1972-2015 flume was unsatisfactory so site used as velocity area except 1984-1990 when station was inactive. Built to measure flows entering Sherwood Sandstone outcrop.

How it measures flow

Theoretical Flat-V equation applies from 2015 onwards with tail water corrections above modular limit of structure. Two ratings applied to pre-2015 period of record, one post-2015. Mining subsidence in 1976 caused permanent drowning of flume until downstream channel was regraded in 1981.

Flow regime

Significant proportion of low flows are comprised of effluent.

The flow record

15 minute derived data starts 1972, only summary and daily mean data prior to this. Station closed between 1984 and 1990. June 2007 and October 2023 high flows beyond limit of rating curve. Full period of record peak flow data reviewed and released in August 2025 (WINFAP Files v14).

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
1965
Station datum
55.8 mAOD
Flow record
1965–2024 · 59 yrs · 89% complete
Peak-flow record
since 1965
Hydrometric area
28
Measured by
Environment Agency

Frequently asked questions

Is the River Meden at Church Warsop flooding today?

The current level is 0.20m, which is within the typical range of 0.15 to 0.80m. Flooding is unlikely at this level.

Is the river level rising or falling at Church Warsop?

Based on the most recent readings, the level is currently falling slightly. 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. 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 River Meden at Church Warsop?

The typical range at this station is 0.15m to 0.80m, based on Environment Agency historical data. Levels above 0.80m 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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