Grantchester Meadows
Grantchester, CambridgeAlong the River Cam
Passable
Grantchester Meadows is currently passable.
The river’s 25 cm below the level where parts of this path can start to flood.
Updated Holding steady over the last 4 h
River level at the gauge
0.39 mASDmeasured
River Rhee at Cambridge Byron's Pool · 1.1 km away
See Environment Agency’s own readings for this gauge
Flood lines for this path: parts can start to flood at 0.65 mASD · usually properly flooded above 0.97 mASD
The river’s running low for this gauge — below its usual range.
This flood line starts from this gauge’s measured history — the level the river only tops a few days a year. Reports of a flooded or passable day will tune it to the path itself.
About this path
The classic riverside walk from Newnham across the floodplain meadows to Grantchester, on the unsurfaced path beside the river. The charity that manages the meadows warns the riverside path can be flooded or very wet, and the meadows sit inside a flood warning area — they went fully under in 1978 and 2014.
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From people on the ground
No reports yet. If you’ve been down, you’d be the first.
Other paths nearby
The closest paths we track, with today’s status — handy if this one’s flooded.
Flood Path is advisory and not safety-critical — river readings come from public feeds with no guarantee, and conditions can change fast in heavy rain. Use your own judgement on the day.