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Smithy Brook

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

Smithy Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Clay Cross, Derbyshire, with about 3.4 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Amber, which flows on into the River Derwent, then the River Trent, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Wingfield Park on the River Amber, about 8.9 km along the river below where Smithy Brook ends on the map.

0.26 mASD Normal · steady 32 min ago

After that, Derby City, about 35 km along the river.

No gauge measures Smithy Brook 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 Smithy Brook

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

Bacon Springs CSO Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into Smithy Brook · 2025: 52 spills, 313 h
Clay Cross Sewage Treatment Works Not discharging
Severn Trent Water · into Smithy Brook · 2025: 60 spills, 569 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: © 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 Smithy Brook

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.

Smithy/Press Brook upstream of Clay Cross sewage treatment works
Last sampled 18 May 2026 · 4 months ago · 39 samples banked
Smithy/Press Brook at Stretton
Last sampled 11 Mar 2026 · 7 months ago · 22 samples banked
Smithy/Press Brook at Ogston
Last sampled 11 Mar 2026 · 7 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: Clay Cross, Bacon's Spring, Smithy Moor, Ogston.

On the map

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

The River Amber, the river it joins →DE55 6AJ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 1.7 km 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 Smithy Brook 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.