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Clough Brook

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

Clough Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Huncoat, Lancashire, with about 2.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Syke Side Brook, which flows on into the River Calder, then the River Ribble and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Whalley Weir on the River Calder, about 7.5 km along the river below where Clough Brook ends on the map.

0.40 m Controlled by a sluice or weir 31 min ago

After that, New Jumbles Rock, about 12 km along the river.

No gauge measures Clough 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 Clough Brook

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

Huncoat PS Not discharging
United Utilities · into Clough Brook · 2025: 17 spills, 45 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 Clough Brook

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.

Clough Brook above the confluence with River Calder
Last sampled 11 Mar 2024 · 2.6 years ago · 6 samples banked
Clough Brook at Huncoat
Last sampled 1 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago · 3 samples banked
Clough Brook at Huncoat
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: Within Grove, Hillock Vale, Huncoat, Altham.

On the map

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

BB5 5UH, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 200 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 Clough 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.