Sills Burn

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

Sills Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Byrness, Northumberland, with about 9.1 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Rede, which flows on into the River North Tyne, then the River Tyne and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Otterburn on the River Rede, about 5.9 km along the river below where Sills Burn ends on the map.

0.46 m Normal · steady 45 min ago

After that, Otterburn Mill, about 11 km along the river.

No gauge measures Sills Burn 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 Sills Burn

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.

Sills Burn at A68 Road
Last sampled 14 Sep 2026 · 17 days ago · 149 samples banked
Sills Burn upstream Redesdale Camp
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026

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

The River Rede, the river it joins →NE19 1RH, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 330 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 Sills Burn 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.