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A stream near Staining, Lancashire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.
Main Dyke is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Staining, Lancashire, with about 11 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Skippool Creek, which flows on into the River Wyre and out to the sea.
None: the lower end of Main Dyke is tidal on the river map. The tide carries water past a gauge both ways there, so no gauge is named downstream of it.
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.
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.
From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Little Marton, Mythop, Staining, Little Poulton, Skippool.
Place names: OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
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The blue line is Main Dyke; 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.
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