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Dare River (Afon Dâr)

A stream near Aberdâr, Rhondda Cynon Taf. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Dare River (Afon Dâr) is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Aberdâr, Rhondda Cynon Taf, with about 4.5 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Afon Cynon, which flows on into the River Taff (Afon Taf) and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Aberdare River Station on Afon Cynon, about 130 m along the river below where Dare River (Afon Dâr) ends on the map.

0.19 m Normal · steady 29 min ago

After that, Mountain Ash River Station, about 6.4 km along the river.

No gauge measures Dare River (Afon Dâr) 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 Dare River (Afon Dâr)

2 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Glan Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Dare · 2025: 42 spills, 118 h
Dare Road Storm Overflow Not discharging
Dwr Cymru Welsh Water · into River Dare · 2025: 98 spills, 526 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: © Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water, from its Storm Overflow Map. Annual spill figures: Environment Agency Event Duration Monitoring return, © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right, Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Cwmdare, Trecynon, Aberdâr.

On the map

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The blue line is Dare River (Afon Dâr); grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Afon Cynon, the river it joins →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 Dare River (Afon Dâr) 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.
No water-sampling point with a banked sample is placed on this stream. Only England’s samples are banked, and only where the map can place their sampling point.
Nothing on this page says whether any place floods. For an address, see its postcode page.