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Upper Fox Drain

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

Upper Fox Drain is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Biggin, North Yorkshire, with about 1.6 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Selby Dam, which flows on into the River Ouse, then the River Humber and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Selby Dam Pumping Station on Selby Dam, about 8.6 km along the river below where Upper Fox Drain ends on the map.

2.09 mAOD Controlled by a sluice or weir 29 min ago

No gauge measures Upper Fox 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.

Storm overflows on Upper Fox Drain

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

Sherburn In Elmet STW Not discharging
Yorkshire Water · into Upper Fox Drain · 2025: 22 spills, 113 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: © Yorkshire 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 Upper Fox 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.

Upper Fox Drain upstream confluence of Selby Dam
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.

On the map

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

Selby Dam, the river it joins →LS25 6HP, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 150 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 Upper Fox Drain 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.