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River Don

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

The River Don is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Jarrow, South Tyneside, with about 16 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Tyne and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

None: the lower end of the River Don is tidal on the river map. The tide carries water past a gauge both ways there, so no gauge is named downstream of it.

Storm overflows on the River Don

26 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: © 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 the River Don

6 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: Usworth, Leam Lane, Follingsby, Town End Farm, West Boldon, East Boldon, Biddick Hall, Brockley Whins.

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 the River Don; 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.

The River Tyne, the river it joins →NE29 6DY, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 600 m away) →All rivers with gauges →

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