Environment Agency monitoring directory
The River Wid from Ingatestone to Writtle, including Margaretting
Live Environment Agency feed
Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- Wid
- Directory county
- Essex
- EA operational area
- Essex
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Shonks Mill Bridge
River Roding · Rodding
Chipping Ongar
Cripsey Brook · Rodding
Mountnessing
River Wid · Essex
High Ongar
River Roding · Rodding
Writtle
River Wid · Essex
Wickford
River Crouch · Essex
Moreton
Cripsey Brook · Rodding
Springfield
River Chelmer · Essex
Sandon Bridge
Sandon Brook · Essex
Guithavon Valley
River Brain · Essex
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
Read the flood insurance guide →