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Cowesby Beck

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

Cowesby Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Borrowby, North Yorkshire, with about 2.3 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Broad Beck, which flows on into Cod Beck, then the River Swale, then the River Ure, then the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Thirsk on Cod Beck, about 13 km along the river below where Cowesby Beck ends on the map.

0.11 m Normal · steady 45 min ago

After that, Dalton, about 21 km along the river.

No gauge measures Cowesby 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.

Water-sampling points on Cowesby Beck

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.

Cowesby Beck at Mill Farm
Last sampled 7 Mar 2025 · 19 months ago · 19 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.

On the map

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

Broad Beck, the stream it joins →YO7 4BD, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 190 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 Cowesby Beck 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.