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Alfreton Brook

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

Alfreton Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Alfreton, Derbyshire, with about 4.5 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Amber, which flows on into the River Derwent, then the River Trent, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Wingfield Park on the River Amber, about 5.2 km along the river below where Alfreton Brook ends on the map.

0.26 mASD Normal · steady 32 min ago

After that, Derby City, about 31 km along the river.

No gauge measures Alfreton Brook 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 Alfreton Brook

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

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 Alfreton Brook

5 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.

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: Westhouses, Acre Ridge Estate, Alfreton, Toadhole Furnace, Oakerthorpe.

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

Rivers and streams: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

Streams flowing into it

The River Amber, the river it joins →DE55 7LZ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 460 m away) →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

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