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Crane Brook

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

Crane Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Shenstone, Staffordshire, with about 9.3 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Black Brook, which flows on into Bourne Brook, then the River Tame, then the River Trent, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Hints on Bourne Brook, about 7.0 km along the river below where Crane Brook ends on the map.

1.28 mASD Normal · rising slightly 30 min ago

After that, Tamworth, about 15 km along the river.

No gauge measures Crane 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 Crane Brook

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

Chasetown Pumping Station Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into Bourne/Black/Crane Brook · 2025: 14 spills, 43 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 Crane Brook

4 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.

Black/Bourne/Crane Brook - Ashcroft Farm
Last sampled 17 Aug 2026 · 45 days ago · 33 samples banked
Crane Brook Raikes Lane
Last sampled 17 Aug 2026 · 45 days ago · 5 samples banked
Crane Brook Triangle Park
Last sampled 14 Aug 2026 · 48 days ago · 5 samples banked
Black/Bourne/Crane Brook - Chesterfield
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: Brownhills West, Chasetown, Shenstone.

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

Streams flowing into it

Footherley Brook

WS14 0DP, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 20 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 Crane 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.