River Levels

📢 Please take a minute to read this personal message from the creator of River Levels UK

River Levels

The upper Stour and surrounding tributaries

Message issued at 4:32pm, Friday 14th November 2025

This is an archived message. The status has changed more recently.

Go to current status

Flooding possible. Be prepared.

Flood alert

Rising river levels today may lead to flooding. 
Flooding is possible from the afternoon of 14 November 2025 . Flooding of low lying land and roads is possible. 
Areas most at risk are low lying roads and riverside areas around Haverhill, Clare and Sudbury, including Kedington, Sturmer, Steeple Bumpstead, Cavendish, Bridge Street and Long Melford. The forecast is for continued rain and so we may need to issue more warning messages for a wider area, over the next few hours. 
We are monitoring rainfall and river levels . 
Take care and avoid walking, cycling or driving through flood water . 
This message will be updated by 12:00PM on 15 November 2025 or as the situation changes.

Information supplied by the Environment Agency

This information last updated 4:32pm, Friday 14th November 2025.

This page is a dedicated URL for a specific message issued at a particular time. You should not bookmark this page, as the current situation may have changed since this message was issued.

Go to current status

Most recent flood warnings and alerts for The upper Stour and surrounding tributaries

Flood Warning Area Details

The upper Stour and surrounding tributaries, at Little Yeldham, Steeple Bumpstead, Haverhill, Kedington, Glemsford and Brockley, to and including, Sudbury

Region: East Anglia

Country: England

Counties covered: Cambridgeshire, Essex, Suffolk

Watercourses covered: Stour, Stour Brook, Bumpstead Brook

Area covered by this alert location

The area bounded in blue on the map shows the area covered by flood alerts and warnings for The upper Stour and surrounding tributaries.

Note: the area shown on the map is the area covered by flood alerts and warnings. It is not a live map of current flooding. The area covered broadly equates to the area where the risk of flooding in any year is greater than 1% (the "hundred year" flood risk).

Other Nearby Flood Warning Locations

The River Stour from downstream of Kedington to Sudbury
The River Stour from downstream of Kedington to Sudbury, including Clare and Cavendish

No current or recent warnings.

RiverLevels.uk is an independent website. It is not associated with the Environment Agency or any other supplier of river level information. All data used on this site is supplied under licence. For queries about the data, please contact the underlying supplier.

RiverLevels.uk is a Good Stuff website.