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Cut-off Channel

A stream near Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Cut-off Channel is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Hockwold cum Wilton, Norfolk, with about 45 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Relief Channel, which flows on into the River Great Ouse and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

None before the water reaches tidal water, about 17 km downstream. Below that, gauges read the tide.

Storm overflows on Cut-off Channel

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

Feltwell Water Recycling Centre Not discharging
Anglian Water · into Cut-Off Channel · 2025: 12 spills, 47 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: © Anglian 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 Cut-off Channel

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.

Cut off Channel Blackdyke Bridge
Last sampled 17 Sep 2026 · 14 days ago · 48 samples banked
Cut off Channel Eriswell Bridge
Last sampled 18 May 2026 · 4 months ago · 24 samples banked
Cut off Channel A10 Road Bridge Hilgay
Last sampled 11 May 2026 · 5 months ago · 20 samples banked
Cut off Channel Methwold Hythe Bridge
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: Eriswell, Lakenheath, Hockwold cum Wilton, Methwold Hythe, Hilgay, Salters Lode.

On the map

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

PE38 0AZ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 470 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 Cut-off Channel 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.