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Ditton Brook

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

Ditton Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Hale Bank, Halton, with about 5.2 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Mersey and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

None: the lower end of Ditton Brook is tidal on the river map. The tide carries water past a gauge both ways there, so no gauge is named downstream of it.

Storm overflows on Ditton Brook

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

Ash Lane CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Ditton Brook · 2025: 9 spills, 98 h
Harrison Street CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Ditton Brook · 2025: 21 spills, 105 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: © United Utilities 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 Ditton Brook

2 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.

Ditton Brook at Cart Bridge Halewood Green
Last sampled 24 Aug 2026 · 38 days ago · 34 samples banked
Ditton Brook downstream of A562
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: Hough Green, West Bank Dock Estate, Hale Bank.

On the map

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

The River Mersey, the river it joins →WA8 8GT, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 440 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 Ditton 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.