Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane water level

Name: Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane water level (Environment Agency)
Creator: Environment Agency
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

River gauge, Staffordshire, United Kingdom

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Water level

0.69m Down 0.26 m over the last 24 hours

Measured 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST (26 min ago)

History

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Water level

What this means

The latest river level reported for Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane is 0.69 m. There is no published reference for this river yet, so we can't say whether that is high or low for the season.

The level is falling, down 0.26 m over the past 24 hours. Over the past 30 days it has moved between 0.34 m and 1.14 m.

Over the past seven days the change adds up to +0.19 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: 0.34 m – 1.14 m
Lowest and highest in 12 months: 0.34 m – 0.81 m

On the river at Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane

There is no published typical range for this gauge yet, so anglers and canoeists are best guided by the trend.

Flood warnings for the area come from the Environment Agency.

Weather at the gauge

Rain in the last 3 days: 5.2 mm. Rain that falls upstream can take hours or days to show up at a river gauge.

19 Mon 13° 7° 1.7 mm, 100% Wind 17 km/h

20 Tue 11° 8° 14 mm, 100% Wind 12 km/h

21 Wed 9° 5° 6.0 mm, 61% Wind 23 km/h

22 Thu 11° 4° 3.5 mm, 64% Wind 26 km/h

23 Fri 12° 7° 27 mm, 81% Wind 38 km/h

24 Sat 11° 7° 2.3 mm, 76% Wind 37 km/h

25 Sun 17° 9° 1.7 mm, 61% Wind 28 km/h

Forecast: Open-Meteo

Sunrise 07:46 AM Sunset 06:02 PM Daylight 10 hr, 16 min Waxing gibbous 76%

Map

Nearby gauges

Gauge	Level	Compared with normal	24 hours	Distance
Newcastle Under LymeRiver gauge, Lyme Brook	0.31 m	Normal	−0.11 m	2.1 km
Liverpool Road, Stoke-On-TrentRiver gauge, Fowlea Brook	0.10 m	Normal	−0.07 m	4.2 km
BucknallRiver gauge, River Trent	0.14 m	Normal	−0.03 m	5.3 km
Hanford BridgeRiver gauge, River Trent	0.51 m	Normal	−0.11 m	5.6 km
Brookhouse FarmRiver gauge, Ford Green Brook	0.28 m	Normal	−0.01 m	7.6 km
KnypersleyRiver gauge, River Trent	0.43 m	Normal	±0	8.5 km
Blythe BridgeRiver gauge, River Blithe	0.35 m	Normal	−0.03 m	13 km
DarlastonRiver gauge, River Trent	1.01 m	Normal	−0.32 m	13 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 0.69 m on the gauge does not mean the water is that deep.

What is the water level of Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane today?

On 21 Oct 2026, 11:00 BST, the water level was 0.69 m. Down 0.26 m over the last 24 hours.

Is Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane rising or falling?

Down 0.26 m over the last 24 hours. Up 0.19 m over the last 7 days.

Is the level of Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane 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:4661
Coordinates: 53.02627, -2.23970 (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

Parameter	Last value	Time (UTC)	Quality
Water level	0.69 m	2026-10-21 10:00	Provisional

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How to cite

Environment Agency: Newcastle-Under-Lyme Lower Milehouse Lane (ea:4661). Accessed October 21, 2026 via Nivelmap, https://nivelmap.com/en/united-kingdom/staffordshire/newcastle-under-lyme-lower-milehouse-lane

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.

Readings are provisional, can be delayed or wrong and are not a flood warning. Read the disclaimer