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Afon Rhaeadr

A stream near Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Afon Rhaeadr is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Powys, with about 8.6 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Afon Tanat, which flows on into Afon Efyrnwy (River Vyrnwy), then Afon Hafren (River Severn) and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Llanyblodwel on Afon Tanat, about 15 km along the river below where Afon Rhaeadr ends on the map.

0.23 mASD Normal · steady 37 min ago

After that, Llanymynech River Station, about 21 km along the river.

No gauge measures Afon Rhaeadr 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 Rhaeadr

1 storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

CSO At Llanrhaeadr Waste Water Treatment Works No live feed
Hafren Dyfrdwy · 2025: 22 spills, 109 h · placed on the river by its position alone

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 →

Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Commins, Cefn Côch, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant, Aber Rhaeadr.

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 Rhaeadr; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Afon Tanat, the river it joins →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 Rhaeadr 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.
No water-sampling point with a banked sample is placed on this stream. Only England’s samples are banked, and only 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.