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River Greta

A stream near Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

The River Greta is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire, with about 12 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Lune and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Caton on the River Lune, about 14 km along the river below where the River Greta ends on the map.

0.54 m Normal · easing 34 min ago

After that, Skerton Weir, about 21 km along the river.

No gauge measures the River Greta 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 the River Greta

2 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Burton-In-Lonsdale STW Not discharging
United Utilities · into River Greta · 2025: 78 spills, 165 h
Ingleton STW Not discharging
United Utilities · into River Greta · 2025: 144 spills, 2,446 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: © United Utilities 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 Greta

2 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.

River Greta upstream of Greta Bridge
Last sampled 10 Aug 2026 · 52 days ago · 8 samples banked
River Greta at A683/A687
Last sampled 29 May 2026 · 4 months ago · 22 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Thornton in Lonsdale, Burton in Lonsdale, Old Wennington, Cantsfield, Wrayton, Tunstall.

On the map

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

Streams flowing into it

The River Lune, the river it joins →LA6 2QP, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 990 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 the River Greta 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.