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Shaw Beck

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

Shaw Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Washfold, North Yorkshire, with about 1.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Marske Beck, which flows on into the River Swale, then the River Ure, then the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Richmond Lownthwaite Bridge on the River Swale, about 11 km along the river below where Shaw Beck ends on the map.

-0.01 m Normal · rising slightly 45 min ago

After that, Catterick Bridge, about 23 km along the river.

No gauge measures Shaw Beck 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 Shaw Beck

3 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.

Shaw Beck at Helwith
Last sampled 11 Sep 2026 · 20 days ago · 15 samples banked
Shaw Beck below Footbridge downstream of Prys Beck
Last sampled 17 Aug 2026 · 45 days ago · 16 samples banked
Prys Beck
Last sampled 28 Jan 2025 · 20 months ago · 1 sample 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: Washfold, Helwith.

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 Shaw Beck; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Streams flowing into it

Padley Beck

Marske Beck, the stream it joins →DL11 7EG, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 840 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 Shaw Beck 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.