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Back Brook

A stream near Great Barrow, Cheshire West and Chester. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Back Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Great Barrow, Cheshire West and Chester, with about 900 m of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Gowy; beyond that the map has a gap, so where it goes next is not known.

Next gauge downstream

Bridge Trafford on the River Gowy, about 5.1 km along the river below where Back Brook ends on the map.

0.25 m Normal · steady 30 min ago

No gauge measures Back 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.

Water-sampling points on Back Brook

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

Gowy Bank Farm tributary near Abbeyfield
Last sampled 12 Aug 2026 · 50 days ago · 5 samples banked

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.

On the map

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

The River Gowy, the river it joins →CH3 7HW, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 650 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 Back Brook itself, so its own level is not known here.
No storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map cannot place every overflow.
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.