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Yewdale Beck

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

Yewdale Beck is a stream on Ordnance Survey’s river map near Coniston, Westmorland and Furness, with about 6.8 km of mapped channel. On the map it flows into the River Crake, which flows on into Channel of the River Leven, then Ulverston Channel and out to the sea.

Next gauge downstream

Low Nibthwaite on the River Crake, about 9.5 km along the river below where Yewdale Beck ends on the map.

0.34 m Normal · steady 31 min ago

No gauge measures Yewdale Beck 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 Yewdale Beck

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.

Yewdale Beck As Entering Coniston Water
Last sampled 16 Sep 2026 · 15 days ago · 59 samples banked
Yewdale Beck upstream of Point
Last sampled 16 Sep 2026 · 15 days ago · 40 samples banked
Yewdale Beck at Tilberthwaite
Last sampled 25 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago · 14 samples banked
Yewdale Beck at Shepherds Bridge
Last sampled 25 Mar 2024 · 2.5 years ago · 14 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: High Water Head, Oak Bank, Coniston.

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

The River Crake, the river it joins →LA21 8AN, a postcode page near where it ends on the map (about 250 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 Yewdale Beck 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.