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Dewsbury Beck

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

Dewsbury Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Dewsbury, Kirklees, with about 1.5 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Calder, which flows on into the River Aire, then the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Horbury on the River Calder, about 6.9 km along the river below where Dewsbury Beck ends on the map.

0.36 m Normal · rising 46 min ago

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

No gauge measures Dewsbury 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.

Storm overflows on Dewsbury Beck

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

Wood Street Dewsbury CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Dewsbury Beck · 2025: 11 spills, 20 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: © Yorkshire 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Crackenedge, Batley Carr, The Flatts, Boothroyd, Eastborough, Dewsbury, Savile Town, Earlsheaton.

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

The River Calder, the river it joins →WF12 9AG, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 120 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 Dewsbury Beck 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.

This uses Environment Agency flood and river level data from the real-time data API (Beta). Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0.