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Middle Brook

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

Middle Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Chew Moor, Bolton, with about 7.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Croal, which flows on into the River Irwell; beyond that the map has a gap, so where it goes next is not known.

Next gauge downstream

Farnworth on the River Croal, about 7.2 km along the river below where Middle Brook ends on the map.

0.09 m Normal · easing 31 min ago

After that, Kearsley, about 9.6 km along the river.

No gauge measures Middle 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 Middle Brook

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

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 Middle Brook

4 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.

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: Lostock, Chew Moor, Lostock Junction, Fernhill Gate, Markland Hill, Pocket, Willows, Gilnow.

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 Middle Brook; 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.

The River Croal, the river it joins →BL3 5NX, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 90 m away) →All rivers with gauges →

What this page can and cannot tell you

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