Dame Judi Dench Walk
Museum Gardens, YorkAlong the River Ouse
Passable
Dame Judi Dench Walk is currently passable.
The river’s 1.78 m below the level where parts of this path can start to flood.
Over the past year, though, the river topped the level where this path usually floods on about 24 days, mostly in October to March and September.
Updated Holding steady over the last 4 h
River level at the gauge
0.12 mmeasured
River Ouse at Viking Recorder · 501 m away
See Environment Agency’s own readings for this gauge
Flood lines for this path: parts can start to flood at 1.90 m · usually properly flooded above 3.07 m
The river’s sitting low in this gauge’s 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.
Through the year
Over the past year the river topped the level where this path is usually flooded on about 24 days, mostly in October to March and September.
It also reached the lower level where parts of this path can start to flood on about 51 more days.
From this gauge’s own record over the year to July 2026, measured against the level we estimate this path floods at. It’s a guide to the season, not a forecast.
About this path
The paved riverside promenade on the north-west bank of the Ouse between Lendal Bridge and Scarborough Bridge, beside Museum Gardens — a busy walking link to York station. One of the first city-centre paths to go under when the Ouse rises: the council lists it among the riverside paths regularly unusable at high river levels.
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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.