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Tarleton Runner

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

Tarleton Runner is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Mere Brow, Lancashire, with about 5.7 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the Sluice, which flows on into Back Drain, then Crossens Pool, then the River Ribble and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Crossens Pumping Station on the Sluice, about 4.6 km along the river below where Tarleton Runner ends on the map.

1.60 m Controlled by a sluice or weir 29 min ago

No gauge measures Tarleton Runner 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 Tarleton Runner

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

Mere Brow WwTW Not discharging shellfish water
United Utilities · into Tarleton Runner · 2025: 93 spills, 916 h
Mere Brow WwTW Not discharging shellfish water
United Utilities · into Tarleton Runner · 2025: 14 spills, 73 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 Tarleton Runner

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.

Tarleton Runner at Long Ditch Bridge
Last sampled 5 May 2026 · 5 months ago · 24 samples banked
Tarleton Runner upstream of Mere Brow sewage treatment works
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: Holmes, Mere Brow.

On the map

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

The Sluice, the river it joins →PR9 8AH, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 320 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 Tarleton Runner 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.