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River Irwell at Bacup

Areas at risk include Burnley Road around Bacup Leisure Hall to St James Square, along Market St, Henrietta St and Park Rd Industrial Estates. Also properties around the Library and St James Street to Lumb Scar, Beech Industrial Estate and Vale Street

Flood warning area River Irwell Lancashire Gtr Mancs Mersey and Ches In Upper River Irwell catchment with Oldham, Bolton, Rochdale, Haslingden, Ramsbottom and Rawtenstall

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Nearby Monitoring Stations

Throstle Mill in this area
River Irwell • Bacup • 0.2 km (upstream)
Steady · normal
0.48 m
32min ago
Holt Mill Bridge
River Irwell • Waterfoot • 3.9 km (upstream)
Steady · normal
0.21 m
32min ago
Irwell Vale
River Irwell • Edenfield • 8.1 km (upstream)
Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.39 at 12:00, now 0.37
0.37 m
32min ago
Stubbins
River Irwell • Stubbins • 8.6 km (upstream)
Steady · normal
0.18 m
32min ago
Ramsbottom Weir
River Irwell • Ramsbottom • 9.4 km (upstream)
structure gauge
0.38 m
32min ago
Bury Ground
River Irwell • Bury • 13.3 km (downstream)
Steady · normal
0.38 m
32min ago
Pioneer Mills
River Irwell • Radcliffe • 17.3 km (downstream)
Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.58 at 12:15, now 0.56
0.56 m
32min ago
Kearsley
River Irwell • Kearsley • 20.6 km (downstream)
Easing · normal — Easing — down from 0.93 at 13:15, now 0.91
0.91 m
32min ago
Littleton Road River
River Irwell • Salford • 22.1 km (downstream)
Steady · normal
0.90 m
32min ago
Manchester Racecourse
River Irwell • Broughton • 22.9 km (downstream)
Steady · normal
1.01 m
32min ago

Flood Event History (10)

20 Sep 2025 at 8:14pm Flood Warning
5 Dec 2024 at 4:53pm Flood Warning
23 Nov 2024 at 1:24pm Flood Warning
9 Feb 2020 at 8:03am Flood Warning
21 Oct 2017 at 5:50pm Flood Warning
5 Oct 2017 at 2:02am Flood Warning
17 Mar 2017 at 8:28pm Flood Warning
21 Nov 2016 at 6:23pm Flood Warning
26 Dec 2015 at 7:19am Flood Warning
22 Jun 2012 at 7:25pm Flood Warning

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Official sources for this area

This area on the Environment Agency’s flood service →
Floodline quick dial: 143054 — call 0345 988 1188 and give that code for a recorded update on this area.
Area code: 013FWFL50

Live warnings and area boundaries are the Environment Agency’s and the EA is the authority on them. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This area in the EA’s own data.