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Bavelaw Burn

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

Bavelaw Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Balerno, City of Edinburgh, with about 6.3 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Water of Leith and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Colinton on Water of Leith, about 5.9 km along the river below where Bavelaw Burn ends on the map.

0.21 m Normal · crested 32 min ago

After that, Murrayfield, about 13 km along the river.

No gauge measures Bavelaw Burn 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 Bavelaw Burn

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

Balerno Bravelaw Burn CSO Nt163663 Not discharging
Scottish Water · into Bavelaw Burn · no official annual figure

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: © Scottish Water, near-real-time Overflow Map data, open licence for reuse. EDM monitors indicate overflows; they do not confirm them, and this is not advice on water quality.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Balerno, Malleny Mills.

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

Water of Leith, 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 Bavelaw Burn 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.