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One Bridge Brook

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

One Bridge Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Writtle, Essex, with about 1.6 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Can, which flows on into the River Chelmer, then the River Blackwater and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Beach's Mill on the River Can, about 130 m along the river below where One Bridge Brook ends on the map.

0.24 mASD Normal · steady 30 min ago

After that, BEACHES MILL FGS GSM, about 170 m along the river.

No gauge measures One Bridge 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 One Bridge Brook

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

Avon Rd SSO Chelmsford Not discharging
Anglian Water · into Tributary River Can · 2025: 12 spills, 132 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: © Anglian 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 One Bridge Brook

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.

Chignall Brook Roxwell Road One Bridge
Last sampled 7 Sep 2026 · 24 days ago · 25 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 One Bridge Brook; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

The River Can, the river it joins →CM1 2NX, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 150 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 One Bridge Brook 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.