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Rainworth Water

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

Rainworth Water is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Rainworth, Nottinghamshire, with about 18 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Maun, which flows on into the River Maun, then the River Idle, then the River Trent, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Whitewater Bridge on Whitewater (River Maun), about 3.7 km along the river below where Rainworth Water ends on the map.

0.30 mASD Normal · easing 30 min ago

After that, Ordsall, about 21 km along the river.

No gauge measures Rainworth 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.

Storm overflows on Rainworth Water

3 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: © Severn Trent 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 Rainworth Water

10 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: Rainworth, Bilsthorpe.

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 Rainworth Water; 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.

Streams flowing into it

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.