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Wade Brook

A stream near Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Wade Brook is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Northwich, Cheshire West and Chester, with about 5.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into Witton Brook; beyond that the map has a gap, so where it goes next is not known.

Next gauge downstream

Not known: the river map does not trace this water as far as a gauge or the sea (the map has a gap, the water enters a canal, or the next gauge is more than 100 km away).

Storm overflows on Wade Brook

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

Rear Of 36 Peter Street Not discharging
United Utilities · into Wade Brook Via Sws · 2025: 1 spill, 0.2 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate

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 Wade Brook

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.

Wade Brook below Lostock Permitted Sites above confluence with Wincham Brook
Last sampled 3 Aug 2026 · 59 days ago · 32 samples banked
Wade Brook above ICI Wade 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: Lostock Green, Lostock Gralam, Rudheath, Marston, Northwich.

On the map

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

CW9 5NP, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 600 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 Wade Brook 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.