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Afon Morda (River Morda)

A stream near Morda, Shropshire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Afon Morda (River Morda) is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Morda, Shropshire, with about 28 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Afon Efyrnwy (River Vyrnwy), which flows on into Afon Hafren (River Severn) and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Crew Green on Afon Hafren (River Severn), about 9.3 km along the river below where Afon Morda (River Morda) ends on the map.

0.29 mASD Normal · steady 45 min ago

After that, Cae Howel, about 12 km along the river.

No gauge measures Afon Morda (River Morda) itself. A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed it, mixed with everything else that has joined on the way, so it says nothing exact about this stream.

Storm overflows on Afon Morda (River Morda)

2 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Mile Oak STW Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into River Morda · 2025: 40 spills, 302 h
Weston Lane Morda CSO Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into River Morda · 2025: 13 spills, 113 h

A status says whether an overflow is discharging now, never how much or why. A monitor that is offline or has not reported is not “not discharging”. Sewage in Britain’s rivers →

Live status: © Severn Trent Water storm overflow activity data, licensed under CC BY 4.0. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Water-sampling points on Afon Morda (River Morda)

6 Environment Agency sampling points are placed on this stream. These are dated samples taken by hand, not live readings, and FloodRadar does not grade them.

River Morda at Maesbury Ford
Last sampled 8 May 2026 · 5 months ago · 23 samples banked
River Morda B5069 Roadbridge Morda Village
Last sampled 8 May 2026 · 5 months ago · 23 samples banked
River Morda at Pont Fadoc Bridge (GQA)
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
River Morda - Montgomery Canal, New Bridge
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
River Morda downstream of Oswestry sewage treatment works
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
River Morda A483 Bridge Oswestry Bypass
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026

A sample is taken on a date; it says nothing about the water today. A sample below an overflow does not by itself show where anything in it came from.

Water samples: Environment Agency Water Quality Archive, © Environment Agency and/or database right 2026, Open Government Licence v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Llawnt, Rhydycroesau, Croesau Bach, Coed y Go, Morda, Gwern y brenin, Maesbury, Ball.

Place names: OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

On the map

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The blue line is Afon Morda (River Morda); grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Streams flowing into it

Oswestry Brook

Afon Efyrnwy (River Vyrnwy), the river it joins →SY10 8QH, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 270 m away) →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

Its line, its name and where it flows come from Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers, edition 2026-04), which leaves out many small streams, ditches and culverts. “Flows into” is the map’s word: a channel that is not on the map is not shown here, which does not mean it is not there.
No gauge measures Afon Morda (River Morda) itself, so its own level is not known here.
Storm overflows are listed only where the river map places them on this stream; an overflow it could not place is not counted.
Water samples are England’s only (the Environment Agency’s archive), placed where the map can place their sampling point.
Nothing on this page says whether any place floods. For an address, see its postcode page.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.