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The Drain

A stream near Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland and Furness. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

The Drain is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Burton-in-Kendal, Westmorland and Furness, with about 1.1 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Holme and Hale Beck, which flows on into Holme Beck, then the River Bela, then the River Kent, then Red Bank Dyke and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Beetham Weir on the River Bela, about 5.6 km along the river below where the Drain ends on the map.

0.28 m Controlled by a sluice or weir 29 min ago

No gauge measures the Drain 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 the Drain

1 Environment Agency sampling point is placed on this stream. These are dated samples taken by hand, not live readings, and FloodRadar does not grade them.

Drain at Moss Lane, Hale Moss
Last sampled 11 Dec 2023 · 2.8 years ago · 3 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.

On the map

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

LA5 9RP, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 390 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 the Drain 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.