Starts as two streams. From north of Cragside, then parallel with and south of Cragside over Benton Road and south-east to Etherstone Avenue. The other route runs from a pond east of Benton Road, south parallel with Benton Road to Etherstone Avenue. From there one burn runs south over Coast Road, east-south-east to cross Benfield Road, south-south-east and then east to Willington Cut. This forms the boundary between Newcastle and Wallsend.

Rises on Moor east of Grandstand Road, flows via a pond parallel with Claremont Road to lake in Exhibition Park. Two possible lines shown between there and Jesmond Road - north of lake over North Road, parallel with Clayton Road and then south, and south of lake to paddling pool and east. Another route from north of Jesmond Road, south, then east under railway to Sandyford Road/Chester Street junction, the south-east to join Ouse Burn north of Warwick Street. Newcastle is built on glacial deposits which are over 100ft deep. As these flowed down to the Tyne gorge, deep valleys were cut into the surface. At Lambert's Leap (junction of Sandyford Road and Grantham Road) the Sandyford Dene was 36 feet deep and 45 feet wide (Barke & Buswell 1980).

Rises south-east of Kenton Road/Grandstand Road junction on the Moor, flows east via a pond to cross North Road, the allotments, then south parallel with and west of railway for 1/4 mile, then east-south-east over Osborne Road to Jesmond Road south of junction with Jesmond Dene Road, and south-south-east into the Ouse Burn.

Flows east along north edge of Nun's Moor and Duke's Moor to join the Ouse Burn east of the foot of Matthew Bank.

The Ouse Burn runs for nine miles from its source at Callerton Pond, eastwards past Kingston Park before turning south. "Owse-Burn… is at present a large Village, occasioned by the Coal-works of Richard Ridley and Matthew White, Esq; etc… it takes its Name from the Burn that runs through it. The Banks of this Burn are in many Places terribly high, in all Places beautifully Romantick" (Bourne, 1736, p 153). Description by Robert Gilchrist 1825 and MacKenzie 1827, who calls it a pleasant retreat. This is the only stream that flows into the Tyne at Newcastle that still runs in the open air. The stream was a means of transport for the industries of the lower valley and provided water power via millraces to mills. Part of the Ouse Burn was culverted and the dene infilled in the area of the City Stadium in the twentieth century.

Rises just north of Northumberland Road, runs east of and parallel with Northumberland Street and Pilgrim Street until it turns east at City Road to join Pandon Burn. Means stream with an island. Ayrykborne (1322), Arikburn (1466), Ayrekburn (1518). Culverted by 1733. In order to build Dean Street the valley had to be infilled with bricks, clay, stone and rubbish on top of the culvert. At the junction of Dean Street and Mosley Street over 30 feet of fill was dumped.

Rises on Barrack Road, midway between Stanhope Street and Corporation Street, then in Darn Crook area and under Newgate Street to join Lort Burn just east of Grainger Street.

Rises in Leazes, between Barrack Road and Richardson Road, then runs across Richardson Road just north of junction with Queen Victoria Road, down north side of St. Thomas Street and bends south just after junction with Percy Street and so on beneath Grey Street and Dean Street. Denburn (1311), le Denburn (1331), Lorteburn (c.1361), Lorteburn (c. 1292, 1394), Lorteburne (1394-5), Lortburn (1414, 1505), Lorkburn (1425), Lorburn (1512), Lortborn (1513). Lort means 'dirty'. There was a tenement on Lort Burn called le Payntithall (1361) and le Payntydhalle (1364) - related to Painter Heugh? The burn was crossed by the High and Low Bridges. Painter Heugh was said to have been the highest upstream point which was navigable by small boats, painters being mooring ropes. By 1580 part of the Lort Dene was being infilled and by 1646 the lowest section was being culverted. The section in the Side was finished in 1696. The Lort Burn was fully covered in 1784 because was deemed "a vast nauseous hollow… a place of filth and dirt". To create Grey Street, 250,000 cartloads of material were dumped in the Lort Dene above the culvert to level the site. The Lort Burn was a barrier which prevented east-west movement across the medieval town. It ran from the modern Eldon Square, between the market street and Pilgrim Street, through Sandhill to the Tyne.

Runs down Bath Lane from just south of Corporation Street, then west of Clayton Street West, curves round the site of the old abattoir, and down east edge of Forth Banks into the Tyne. Charleton (1885) described the Skinner Burn as "a small runner of water a few yards west of Westgate, which divided the counties of Northumberland and Newcastle… [it] rose near Pitt Lane (Spring Gardens), at the top of Bath Lane, and ran into the Tyne at the foot of Forth Banks". It also divided Newcastle and Elswick. The burn is clearly shown with numbered boundary stones on Hutton's map of 1770 and Oliver's map of 1844. In the eighteenth century the Skinner Burn became an early centre of industrial activity with glass houses, lime kilns, a large brewery, pottery and foundry. Housing grew up around these concerns, but conditions for residents were unpleasant, one local historian describing the burn as "little better than an evil smelling sewer". The Skinner Burn was culverted between 1840 and 1859. You can still see a small outlet in the river wall.

Rises between Elswick Road and Westmorland Road, less than 1/2 mile west of Gloucester Street. Most of it is culverted apart from a tiny section south of Wolsingham Street.