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Woodnook Water

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

Woodnook Water is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Accrington, Lancashire, with about 6.3 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Hyndburn, which flows on into Hyndburn Brook, then the River Calder, then the River Ribble and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Milnshaw on the River Hyndburn, about 300 m along the river below where Woodnook Water ends on the map.

0.25 m Normal · steady 31 min ago

After that, Whalley Weir, about 15 km along the river.

No gauge measures Woodnook Water 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 Woodnook Water

4 storm overflows are placed on this stream on the river map. Each status is the water company’s own monitor.

Hill Street CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Woodnook Water · 2025: 1 spill, 0.9 h
Priestley Clough CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Woodnook Water · 2025: 15 spills, 17 h
Rear Of 489 Manchester Road CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Woodnook Water Via Sws · 2025: 0 spills, 0 h · reaches the river through a sewer, so where it enters is approximate
Scott Avenue/Hurstead Street CSO Not discharging
United Utilities · into Woodnook Water · 2025: 11 spills, 2.8 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: © 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 Woodnook Water

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.

Wood Nook Water above the confluence with River Hyndburn
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: Acre, Rising Bridge, Hud Hey, Lower Baxenden, Baxenden, Higher Baxenden, Green Haworth, Miller Fold.

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

Streams flowing into it

Broad Oak Water

The River Hyndburn, the river it joins →BB5 1EJ, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 20 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 Woodnook Water 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.