Cat Ditch

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

Cat Ditch is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Wallington, Hertfordshire, with about 11 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Ivel, which flows on into the River Great Ouse, then Hundred Foot Drain (New Bedford River), then the River Great Ouse and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Biggleswade on the River Ivel, about 11 km along the river below where Cat Ditch ends on the map.

0.14 mASD Normal · steady 29 min ago

After that, Blunham, about 20 km along the river.

No gauge measures Cat Ditch 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.

Water-sampling points on Cat Ditch

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.

Cat Ditch downstream of Bygrave sewage treatment works
Last sampled 21 Sep 2026 · 10 days ago · 146 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: Wallington, Astwick, Stotfold Common.

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

The River Ivel, the river it joins →SG5 4AZ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 220 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 Cat Ditch itself, so its own level is not known here.
No storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map cannot place every overflow.
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.