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Featherstall Brook water level

River gauge, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

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Latest reading

Water level

0.18m Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours

0.0 0.5

History

History
0.160.180.200.22mOct 12Oct 14Oct 15Oct 17Oct 190.160.180.200.22mOct 12Oct 15Oct 19
0.150.200.25mSep 19Sep 26Oct 4Oct 11Oct 190.150.200.25mSep 19Oct 4Oct 19
Water level

What this means

Featherstall Brook reads 0.18 m as of 19 Oct 2026, 07:45 BST. There is no published reference for this river yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

It has risen 0.02 m over the past 24 hours. In the last month it has stayed between 0.13 m and 0.28 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to +0.01 m.

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only. How to read levels

Key numbers

Lowest and highest in 30 days
0.13 m – 0.28 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months
0.13 m – 0.24 m

Fishing and paddling

Watch the direction of travel. A rising river after rain behaves very differently from one that is dropping and clearing.

Flood alerts and warnings come from the Environment Agency.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 4.5 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

18 Sun 11° 5° – Wind 19 km/h
19 Mon 13° 8° 3.9 mm, 87% Wind 27 km/h
20 Tue 12° 7° 10 mm, 71% Wind 13 km/h
21 Wed 10° 6° 0.8 mm, 65% Wind 26 km/h
22 Thu 10° 4° 2.7 mm, 51% Wind 22 km/h
23 Fri 7° 5° – Wind 25 km/h
24 Sat 9° 5° 2.9 mm, 82% Wind 32 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:43 AM Sunset 06:05 PM Daylight 10 hr, 22 min First quarter 57%

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Nearby gauges

Gauge Level Compared with normal 24 hours Distance
LittleboroughRiver gauge, River Roch 0.15 m Normal +0.02 m 1.2 km
Albert Royds BridgeRiver gauge, River Roch 0.37 m Normal +0.02 m 2.6 km
Station RoadRiver gauge, River Beal 0.29 m Normal +0.02 m 3.8 km
Beal BridgeRiver gauge, River Beal 0.23 m Normal +0.02 m 5.0 km
WalsdenRiver gauge, Walsden Water 0.04 m Very low ±0 5.4 km
RochdaleRiver gauge, River Roch 0.15 m Normal +0.01 m 5.8 km
Todmorden SalfordRiver gauge, Walsden Water 0.35 m Normal ±0 7.5 km
TodmordenRiver gauge, River Calder 0.45 m Normal ±0 8.3 km

Questions and answers

Is the river level the same as the depth of the water?

No. The reading is measured from a fixed zero mark at the gauge, so 0.18 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Featherstall Brook today?

On 19 Oct 2026, 07:45 BST, the water level was 0.18 m. Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Featherstall Brook rising or falling?

Up 0.02 m over the last 24 hours. Up 0.01 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Featherstall Brook normal?

The agency publishes no normal range for this gauge yet, so we show the trend only.

How often is this data updated?

The Environment Agency publishes a new reading every 15 minutes. This page refreshes within minutes of each update.

Where does this data come from?

The values come directly from the Environment Agency, the official operator of this gauge, and are published under the Open Government Licence v3.0. We do not estimate or model live values.

For specialists

Station codes, datum, parameters, data quality and downloads
Operator
Environment Agency
Station code
ea:690211
Coordinates
53.64285, -2.10898 (WGS84)
Vertical datum
station datum
Update interval
every 15 minutes
Licence
Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains Environment Agency data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0

Published series

ParameterLast valueTime (UTC)Quality
Water level 0.18 m 2026-10-19 06:45 Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Featherstall Brook (ea:690211). Accessed October 19, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/greater-manchester/featherstall-brook

How we check values

Each reading is stored as published. We hold back values that jump faster than physically plausible and show the measurement time with every value.