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Bere Stream

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

Bere Stream is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Bere Regis, Dorset, with about 17 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Piddle, which flows on into Main Channel and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

BAGGS MILL on the River Piddle, about 8.5 km along the river below where Bere Stream ends on the map.

No recent reading (last 4 h ago)

No gauge measures Bere Stream 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 Bere Stream

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

Milborne St Andrew PS Not discharging
Wessex Water · into Tributary Of Bere Stream · 2025: 1 spill, 0.1 h
Milborne St.andrew Not discharging
Wessex Water · into Bere Stream(S) · 2025: 2 spills, 11 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: © Wessex 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 Bere Stream

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.

Bere Stream downstream of Doddings Watercress
Last sampled 21 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago · 17 samples banked
Bere Stream downstream of Doddings Cress Beds
Last sampled 21 Aug 2026 · 41 days ago · 8 samples banked
Bere Stream downstream of Southbrook Cress
Last sampled 16 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago · 10 samples banked
Bere Stream at Bere Regis
Last sampled 9 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago · 13 samples banked
Bere Stream at Ashley Barn
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: Milborne St Andrew, Hopsfield, Shitterton, Bere Regis.

On the map

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

The River Piddle, the river it joins →BH20 7NT, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 890 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 Bere Stream 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.