Oak Beck
A stream near Knox, North Yorkshire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.
Oak Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Knox, North Yorkshire, with about 12 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Nidd, which flows on into the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.
Next gauge downstream
Hunsingore on the River Nidd, about 24 km along the river below where Oak Beck ends on the map.
0.08 m Normal · steady 32 min ago
After that, Skip Bridge, about 40 km along the river.
No gauge measures Oak Beck 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 Oak Beck
9 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.
- 35 Skipton Road CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck Via Public Sewer · 2025: 1 spill, 0.3 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate - Unity Grove CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck Via Public Sewer · 2025: 5 spills, 2.3 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate - 33 Skipton Road CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer · 2025: no data · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate - 83 Skipton Road CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate - Skipton Road 109 Csp Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck Via A Public Sewer · 2025: 6 spills, 2.0 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate - Oakdale Harrogate CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck · 2025: 3 spills, 4.0 h - Harrogate North Sewage Treatment Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck (Nidd Cat) · 2025: 56 spills, 504 h - Harrogate North Sewage Treatment Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck (Nidd Cat) · 2025: 37 spills, 108 h - Oakdale Avenue CSO Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Oak Beck · 2025: 18 spills, 19 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: © Yorkshire 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 Oak Beck
1 Environment Agency sampling point is 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: Jennyfield, Low Harrogate, New Park, Killinghall Moor, Knox.
Place names: OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
On the map
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Rivers and streams: OS Open Rivers. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
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 Oak Beck 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.
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