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Butts Beck

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

Butts Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Barnoldswick, Lancashire, with about 330 m of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Stock Beck, which flows on into the River Ribble and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Low Moor on the River Ribble, about 26 km along the river below where Butts Beck ends on the map.

0.49 m Normal · easing 30 min ago

After that, Henthorn, about 30 km along the river.

No gauge measures Butts Beck 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 Butts Beck

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

Cornmill Cottages CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Butts Beck · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h
Dam Head Bridge /Gisburn Road CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Butts Beck · 2025: 10 spills, 4.3 h
Near Butts Beck CSO (321h7) Not discharging
United Utilities · into Butts Beck · 2025: 5 spills, 1.6 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Barnoldswick, Wapping, Long Ing.

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

Streams flowing into it

Calf Hall Beck

Stock Beck, the stream it joins →BB18 5HB, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 130 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 Butts 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.
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.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.