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Hanney Ditch

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

Hanney Ditch is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Garford, Oxfordshire, with about 1.0 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Childrey Brook, which flows on into the River Ock, then the River Thames and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Abingdon on the River Ock, about 6.0 km along the river below where Hanney Ditch ends on the map.

0.09 mASD Controlled by a sluice or weir 30 min ago

After that, Culham Lock, about 12 km along the river.

No gauge measures Hanney 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 Hanney 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.

200 m upstream of Childrey Brook
Last sampled 18 Sep 2026 · 13 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 Hanney Ditch; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Childrey Brook, the stream it joins →OX13 5PA, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 320 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 Hanney 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.