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Ince Brook

A stream near Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Ince Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Ince-in-Makerfield, Wigan, with about 1.6 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Poolstock Brook, which flows on into the River Douglas, then the River Ribble and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Appley Bridge on the River Douglas, about 9.6 km along the river below where Ince Brook ends on the map.

0.49 m Normal · easing 32 min ago

After that, Parbold, about 14 km along the river.

No gauge measures Ince Brook 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.

Storm overflows on Ince Brook

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

Ince Cemetary CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Ince Brook · 2025: 11 spills, 143 h
Wigan Cemetery Combined Sewer Ov Not discharging
United Utilities · into Ince Brook · 2025: 2 spills, 3.5 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 Ince 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.

Ince Brook at Delph Bridge Ince
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Ince Brook upstream of Pearsons Flash
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: Spring View, Lower Ince, Ince-in-Makerfield, Poolstock, Worsley Mesnes.

On the map

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

Poolstock Brook, the stream it joins →WN3 5DJ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 250 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 Ince 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.

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