Old Water

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

Old Water is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Castle Carrock, Cumberland, with about 3.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Gelt, which flows on into the River Irthing, then the River Eden and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Hynam Bridge on the River Gelt, about 2.8 km along the river below where Old Water ends on the map.

No recent reading (last 10 h ago)

After that, Greenholme, about 15 km along the river.

No gauge measures Old 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 Old Water

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.

Old Water upstream of Old Water Bridge
Last sampled 17 Dec 2025 · 9 months ago · 23 samples banked

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.

On the map

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The blue line is Old Water; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

The River Gelt, the river it joins →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 Old 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.