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Tongue Lake

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

Tongue Lake is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Kings Nympton, Devon, with about 1.4 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Catham Lake, which flows on into the River Mole, then the River Taw and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Umberleigh on the River Taw, about 15 km along the river below where Tongue Lake ends on the map.

0.21 m Normal · easing 31 min ago

No gauge measures Tongue Lake 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 Tongue Lake

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

Kings Nympton (South) WwTW SSO Not discharging
South West Water · into Trib Of River Taw · 2025: 21 spills, 82 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: © South West 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Kings Nympton.

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 Tongue Lake; grey lines are other mapped watercourses. Lines from OS Open Rivers (edition 2026-04).

Catham Lake, the stream it joins →EX37 9EY, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 500 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 Tongue Lake 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.
No water-sampling point with a banked sample is placed on this stream. Only England’s samples are banked, and only 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.