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Glaisdale Beck

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

Glaisdale Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Glaisdale, North Yorkshire, with about 8.7 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Esk and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Briggswath on the River Esk, about 14 km along the river below where Glaisdale Beck ends on the map.

0.29 m Tidal: rises and falls with the tide 30 min ago

No gauge measures Glaisdale 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.

Water-sampling points on Glaisdale Beck

7 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.

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: Glaisdale Side, Delves, Carr End, Glaisdale.

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

Rivers and streams: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

What this page can and cannot tell you

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