ANT River Watch 

Warning – The EA gauge displays a ‘normal’ line. This line relates to property and land flooding only and does not indicate a safe navigation level when in ‘normal’ level. When navigating, check the navigation board below every lock before continuing. Care must be taken when navigating upstream as the higher reach may be in the red zone but show green below the lock. If in doubt – don’t continue! Call 0300 999 2010 for advice.

River Watch has been set up by Avon Navigation Trust to better inform river users of the state of the river. River Watch is made up of a network of web cameras, links to the Environment Agency gauges and to weather forecasts for each area. River users by looking at the live web cams and EA gauges can assess the current condition of the river and by looking at the Rugby and Warwick EA gauges plus the weather forecast can assess whether there is more water coming down the river or is due to fall and therefore affect river levels.

Avon Navigation Trust in partnership with Farson Digital and Ace Computers.

Screens showing the live cameras are located at Stratford Waterways Information Centre ‘William James’, Tewkesbury Lock.

River Watch has been expanded to include 12 cameras, look back in history, an alert service, no adverts, link to weather & river level data.

The cameras can be viewed free of charge, without the extra functionality, however this includes adverts that pay for the upkeep of the service. To have all of the new functions with no adverts you can pay to view as described below.

The EA gauges linked to the page are always free.

If you would like to remove the adverts from the camera pages you can do this by going to the PAY TO VIEW and ‘Go Pro’ by paying £18 per year, subscribe at

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