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Tipalt Burn

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

Tipalt Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Greenhead, Northumberland, with about 19 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River South Tyne, which flows on into the River Tyne and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Haltwhistle on the River South Tyne, about 1.0 km along the river below where Tipalt Burn ends on the map.

0.40 m Normal · easing 29 min ago

After that, Haydon Bridge Brigwood, about 17 km along the river.

No gauge measures Tipalt 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.

Storm overflows on Tipalt Burn

1 storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Greenhead PS Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Tipalt Burn · 2025: 22 spills, 132 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: © Northumbrian 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 Tipalt Burn

5 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.

Tipalt Burn 200 m downstream of Wrytrees/Blenkinsopp
Last sampled 6 Jul 2026 · 3 months ago · 12 samples banked
Tipalt Burn upstream of Byron Minewater
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Tipalt Burn at A69 Road Bridge
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Tipalt Burn downstream of Byron Minewater (Site 3)
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Tipalt Burn at Bridge to Vicarage Greenhead
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: Longbyre, Greenhead.

Place names: OS Open Names. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.

On the map

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

Streams flowing into it

Pow Charney Burn

The River South Tyne, the river it joins →NE49 0HZ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 300 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 Tipalt Burn 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.