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Soham Lode

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

Soham Lode is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Soham, Cambridgeshire, with about 10 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Great Ouse, which flows on into Relief Channel, then the River Great Ouse and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Ely on the River Great Ouse, about 5.1 km along the river below where Soham Lode ends on the map.

0.68 mASD Normal · easing 29 min ago

No gauge measures Soham Lode 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 Soham Lode

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

Mill Corner TPS Not discharging
Anglian Water · into The Soham Lode · 2025: 5 spills, 7.8 h
Soham Water Recycling Centre Not discharging
Anglian Water · into Soham Lode · 2025: 2 spills, 15 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: © Anglian 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 Soham Lode

4 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.

Soham Lode Barway Road Bridge
Last sampled 10 Aug 2026 · 52 days ago · 15 samples banked
Soham Lode off East Fen Common
Last sampled 1 Dec 2025 · 10 months ago · 12 samples banked
Soham Lode Tile House Farm Road Bridge Soham
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Soham Lode Bypass Road Bridge upstream of Town
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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Down Field, Soham, North Field, Soham Cotes, Barway, Little Thetford.

On the map

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

The River Great Ouse, the river it joins →CB7 5GT, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 680 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 Soham Lode 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.