Winterbourne Stream — monitoring and records

The monitoring network on this water

Hydrionis holds 1,424 values from 2 gauges on this water. Discharge is a property of a gauge and its reach, not of this water as a whole, so this page reports the network and its records rather than a single figure.

Gauges

1,424

Values held

1962–2025

Record spans

Gauges on the Winterbourne Stream

2 monitoring points, positioned as the publisher records them.

The seasonal shape

An annual mean says how much water a river carried. A monthly record says when — and on most rivers the difference between a wet winter and a dry summer is larger than the difference between one year and the next.

Monthly mean flow at Winterbourne Stream at Bagnor

Each month's mean discharge as the publisher computed it, which shows the seasonal shape an annual mean flattens away. 1962–2025.

Show relevant events (4 events)Shading marks when something was recorded, not what caused the line.

Taken as the publisher computes it rather than recomputed by Hydrionis from daily values: the publisher knows which of its readings passed validation. Months the gauge did not cover are absent rather than interpolated, and the line breaks where they fall.

What the shaded periods are (4 events)

A shaded period marks when something was recorded, not what caused the shape of the line. Where the two coincide, they coincided.

Documented record — A documented event, compiled from cited sources after it happened. The dates are as good as the record, which for older events can mean the month rather than the day.

Event	Type	Period	Standing	Authority
The 1976 drought	Drought declaration	1975-05-01 – 1976-08-31	Documented record	Compiled record
Yorkshire drought	Drought declaration	1995-04-01 – 1996-03-31	Documented record	Compiled record
The 2022 drought	Drought declaration	2022-03-01 – 2022-10-31	Documented record	Compiled record
European drought	Drought declaration	2022-05-01 – 2022-10-31	Documented record	Compiled record

Not shown on this chart

Cantareira water crisis, São Paulo — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Cape Town Day Zero — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.
Hurricane Katrina water and sanitation collapse — This event’s area does not contain this chart’s subject. Sharing a country is not sharing an event, so it is not drawn.

View the data behind this chart

Underlying data
Period	Winterbourne Stream at Bagnor (m³/s)
1962	0.088
1963	0.097
1964	0.173
1965	0.071
1966	0.108
1967	0.332
1968	0.194
1969	0.263
1970	0.064
1971	0.120
1972	0.139
1973	0.148
1974	0.099
1975	0.287
1976	0.071
1977	0.109
1978	0.196
1979	0.129
1980	0.176
1981	0.119
1982	0.377
1983	0.286
1984	0.135
1985	0.144
1986	0.224
1987	0.181
1988	0.180
1989	0.078
1990	0.118
1991	0.079
1992	0.055
1993	0.286
1994	0.376
1995	0.275
1996	0.212
1997	0.070
1998	0.120
1999	0.310
2000	0.211
2001	0.686
2002	0.131
2003	0.597
2004	0.165
2005	0.095
2006	0.083
2007	0.198
2008	0.315
2009	0.223
2010	0.217
2011	0.103
2012	0.056
2013	0.506
2014	0.589
2015	0.237
2016	0.158
2017	0.142
2018	0.107
2019	0.121
2020	0.330
2021	0.291
2022	0.125
2023	0.180
2024	0.664
2025	0.488

About this series

Everything below is a property of the data rather than a rating of it. There is deliberately no single confidence score: how much a gap matters depends on what you are about to do with the series, and only you know that.

Source	Environment Agency — Hydrology Data Explorer API · Open Government Licence v3.0
How the values came to exist	Measured
Period held	1962–2025
Completeness	100.0% of the periods in that span are held.
Continuity	Continuous: every year from 1962 to 2025 is held.
Last read from the publisher	2026-10-01
Redistribution	Permitted by the upstream licences
Commercial reuse	Permitted by the upstream licences. No Hydrionis access tier can widen this.
Methodology	How this was produced

Every gauge Hydrionis holds here

Gauges on the Winterbourne Stream and what each holds
Gauge	Measures	Values	Record
Winterbourne Stream at Bagnor	mean river flow, mean monthly river flow	800	1962–2025
Winterbourne Stream at Lewes Winterbourne	mean river flow, mean monthly river flow	624	1966–2025

How these gauges were attached to this water

Named by the publisher Each gauge here names this water in the publisher’s own station record. Hydrionis has not inferred the connection from station names.

What each gauge’s link to this water rests on
Gauge	Evidence	Established
Winterbourne Stream at Bagnor	Stated by the publisher — Environment Agency hydrology station register, riverName field — https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations	2026-10-02
Winterbourne Stream at Lewes Winterbourne	Stated by the publisher — Environment Agency hydrology station register, riverName field — https://environment.data.gov.uk/hydrology/id/stations	2026-10-02

What this record holds

Hydrionis decides which waters get a page, and which of those are offered to search, from what is actually held rather than from how the page reads. Five signals are counted; this record has 3 of them, which makes it a full profile.

Information-gain signals held for this water body
Signal	Held	Counts
Gauges holding a real record	2	no
Years spanned	64	yes, 20 or more
Values held	1,424	yes, 1000 or more
Distinct measurements	2	yes, 2 or more
Publishers measuring it	1	no
Official identifiers	0	recorded, not counted

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Attribution and citation

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Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Environment Agency — Open Government Licence v3.0 (licence text)

Suggested citation for Hydrionis

Hydrionis (2026), Winterbourne Stream gauge records, accessed 2026-10-05, hydrionis.com/waters/england-winterbourne-stream/

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Where these figures come from

Spatially aggregatedHigh confidence2022

Source: EA — Hydrology Data Explorer API, EA measure fc8999c2-d9ad-4a1a-887b-2f9c10f11689-flow-m-86400-m3s-qualified. Licence: Open — attribution required (attribution required).

Method: Mean of the twelve monthly means for the year. Computed from months rather than from daily readings directly, so that a year with uneven observation is not weighted toward its best-observed months. Years with any month missing are not published.

Aggregated by Hydrionis from daily mean flow published by the Environment Agency under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Retrieved 1 October 2026.