Home › Rivers › Greatham Beck

Greatham Beck

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

Greatham Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Greatham, Hartlepool, with about 4.9 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Greatham Creek, which flows on into the River Tees and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

None: the lower end of Greatham Beck 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 Greatham Beck

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

Greatham STW Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Greatham Beck · 2025: 46 spills, 65 h
Greatham STW Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Greatham Beck · 2025: 38 spills, 149 h
West Row CSO Hp008 Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Greatham Beck · 2025: 12 spills, 10 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: © Northumbrian 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.

Water-sampling points on Greatham Beck

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.

Greatham Beck at Greatham Bridge
Last sampled 26 Mar 2026 · 6 months ago · 19 samples banked
Greatham Beck at A689 Road Bridge
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: Brierton, Greatham.

On the map

The map needs JavaScript. Everything it shows is listed on this page.

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

TS25 2HE, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 530 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 Greatham 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.
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.