Home › Rivers › Blea Beck

Blea Beck

A stream near Askam in Furness, Westmorland and Furness. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Blea Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Askam in Furness, Westmorland and Furness, with about 3.1 km of mapped channel. Where it goes is not known: the map has a gap below it.

Next gauge downstream

None: on the river map this water reaches the sea without passing a gauge.

Storm overflows on Blea Beck

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

Askam-In-Furness WwTW Askam Not discharging shellfish water
United Utilities · into Blea Beck · 2025: 65 spills, 1,066 h
Askam-In-Furness WwTW Askam Not discharging shellfish water
United Utilities · into Blea Beck · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
K Shoes CSO 042b6 Not discharging
United Utilities · into Blea Beck · 2025: 5 spills, 0.8 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: © United Utilities 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 Blea Beck

3 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.

Blea Beck at Askham in Furness
Last sampled 11 Sep 2026 · 20 days ago · 19 samples banked
Blea Beck above the confluence with River Duddon
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Blea Beck at Dalton Road
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: Greenscoe, Askam in Furness, Ireleth.

On the map

The map needs JavaScript. Everything it shows is listed on this page.

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

LA16 7AW, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 380 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 Blea Beck 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.