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Newbrough Burn

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

Newbrough Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Newbrough, Northumberland, with about 4.2 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River South Tyne, which flows on into the River Tyne and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Warden Bridge End on the River South Tyne, about 4.5 km along the river below where Newbrough Burn ends on the map.

-0.02 m Normal · crested 30 min ago

After that, Hexham, about 8.1 km along the river.

No gauge measures Newbrough Burn 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 Newbrough Burn

1 storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Newbrough Pumping Station Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Newbrough Burn (South Tyne) · 2025: 9 spills, 4.3 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: © Northumbrian Water 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 Newbrough Burn

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.

Newbrough Burn at Newbrough Village
Last sampled 2 Apr 2025 · 18 months ago · 1 sample banked
Newbrough Burn Ford near Newbr Lodge
Last sampled 13 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago · 3 samples banked
Newbrough Burn upstream of Greyside Cott tributary
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Greys Cott tributary downstream of Culvert
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: Newbrough.

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

Streams flowing into it

Settlingstones Burn

The River South Tyne, the river it joins →NE47 5AD, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 890 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 Newbrough Burn 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.