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Wallsend Burn

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

Wallsend Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Wallsend, North Tyneside, with about 2.7 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Tyne and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

None: the lower end of Wallsend Burn is tidal on the river map. The tide carries water past a gauge both ways there, so no gauge is named downstream of it.

Storm overflows on Wallsend Burn

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

Killingworth Wagonway CSO Not discharging
Northumbrian Water · into Wallsend Burn · 2025: 20 spills, 27 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 Wallsend Burn

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.

Wallsend Burn 250 upstream of Burn Closes Bridge
Last sampled 2 Sep 2026 · 29 days ago · 24 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.

Places along it

From its source towards its mouth, the settlements within a kilometre of it on the map: Bigges Main, Wallsend, Point Pleasant, Willington Quay, Jarrow.

On the map

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

The River Tyne, the river it joins →NE28 6QT, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 210 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 Wallsend 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.