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Woodham Burn

A stream near Newton Aycliffe, County Durham. No gauge of its own: what the river map and the banked data say about it.

Woodham Burn is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Newton Aycliffe, County Durham, with about 7.0 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Skerne, which flows on into the River Tees and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Preston-Le-Skerne on the River Skerne, about 3.8 km along the river below where Woodham Burn ends on the map.

No recent reading (last 18 Aug 2026)

After that, John St Darlington, about 20 km along the river.

No gauge measures Woodham 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.

Water-sampling points on Woodham Burn

4 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.

Woodham Burn at Low Copelaw
Last sampled 22 Apr 2026 · 5 months ago · 24 samples banked
Woodham Burn upstream of Rushyford Beck confluence
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Woodham Burn at Aycliffe - Spot Gauge
No sample published 1 Oct 2023 – 30 Sep 2026
Woodham Burn at Woodham Bridge
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: Newton Aycliffe, Woodham Village.

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

Streams flowing into it

Rushyford Beck

The River Skerne, the river it joins →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 Woodham Burn itself, so its own level is not known here.
No storm overflow is placed on this stream on the river map. That is not the same as none: the map cannot place every overflow.
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.