Bourn Brook

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

Bourn Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Bournbrook, Birmingham, with about 7.2 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Rea, which flows on into the River Tame, then the River Trent, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Calthorpe Park on the River Rea, about 1.4 km along the river below where Bourn Brook ends on the map.

0.10 mASD Normal · easing 45 min ago

After that, Water Orton, about 16 km along the river.

No gauge measures Bourn 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.

Storm overflows on Bourn Brook

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

Harborne Lane CSO Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into Bourn Brook · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
Leasow Drive CSO Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into Bourn Brook · 2025: 3 spills, 6.2 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: © Severn Trent 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 Bourn 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.

Bourn Brook - at Pershore Road
Last sampled 12 Aug 2026 · 50 days ago · 4 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Woodgate Valley, Bournbrook, Cannon Hill.

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

Streams flowing into it

Stonehouse Brook

The River Rea, the river it joins →B5 7RL, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 150 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 Bourn Brook 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.