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Friar's Ditch

A stream near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Friar's Ditch is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Kirby Misperton, North Yorkshire, with about 470 m of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Costa Beck, which flows on into the River Rye, then the River Derwent, then the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Howe Bridge on the River Rye, about 4.6 km along the river below where Friar's Ditch ends on the map.

0.11 m Normal · steady 29 min ago

After that, Malton, A64 Road Bridge, about 10 km along the river.

No gauge measures Friar's Ditch 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.

Water-sampling points on Friar's Ditch

1 Environment Agency sampling point is placed on this stream. These are dated samples taken by hand, not live readings, and FloodRadar does not grade them.

Friar's Ditch near Kirby Misperton
Last sampled 3 Sep 2026 · 28 days ago · 9 samples banked

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.

On the map

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The blue line is Friar's Ditch; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Costa Beck, the river it joins →YO17 6UG, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 340 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 Friar's Ditch itself, so its own level is not known here.
No storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map cannot place every overflow.
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.