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King Water

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

King Water is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Walton, Cumberland, with about 27 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Irthing, which flows on into the River Eden and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Greenholme on the River Irthing, about 9.2 km along the river below where King Water ends on the map.

0.26 m Normal · steady 30 min ago

After that, Linstock, about 20 km along the river.

No gauge measures King Water 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 King Water

3 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.

King Water South of Kingwater House
Last sampled 5 Dec 2024 · 22 months ago · 12 samples banked
King Water at Dovecote Bridge
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
King Water at Kingbridge Ford
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: Walton.

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

The River Irthing, the river it joins →CA8 2AY, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 220 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 King Water 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.