Black Burn

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

Black Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Blackburn, Aberdeenshire, with about 6.2 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Don and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Parkhill on the River Don, about 8.0 km along the river below where Black Burn ends on the map.

0.90 m Normal · rising slightly 16 min ago

No gauge measures Black 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 Black Burn

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

Clinterty CSO 2017 Nj832110 Not discharging
Scottish Water · into Black 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: Blackburn, Mill of Fintray, Hatton of Fintray.

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

The River Don, 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 Black 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.