Does CH2 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH2 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 37 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH2 postcode district covers Gowy Rural, Upton, close to Bridge Trafford, Chester, Abbot's Mead, Chester, and surrounding villages in Cheshire West and Chester.

37 postcodes in the CH2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 4 medium, 20 low, 1 very low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which CH2 postcodes are at risk?

CH2 3DG up to High CH2 3DH up to High CH2 4FE up to High CH2 4JA up to High CH2 4JJ up to High CH2 4JP up to High CH2 4JY up to High CH2 4LB up to High CH2 4NR up to High CH2 4NS up to High CH2 4RG up to High CH2 4SA up to High CH2 4EH up to Medium CH2 4EZ up to Medium CH2 4JN up to Medium CH2 4NP up to Medium CH2 3DP up to Low CH2 3FF up to Low CH2 4DL up to Low CH2 4DP up to Low CH2 4EJ up to Low CH2 4EN up to Low CH2 4EP up to Low CH2 4HU up to Low CH2 4JF up to Low CH2 4JX up to Low CH2 4LH up to Low CH2 4QJ up to Low CH2 4QL up to Low CH2 4QP up to Low CH2 4QR up to Low CH2 4QS up to Low CH2 4QT up to Low CH2 4QU up to Low CH2 4QW up to Low CH2 4QX up to Low CH2 1DT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near CH2

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Bridge Trafford on the River Gowy — 1 km away, highest on record 2.57m
Knolls Bridge, Chester on the Finchett's Gutter — 5.2 km away, highest on record 8.15m
Countess Way, Abbot's Mead on the Finchett's Gutter — 5.7 km away
Tattenhall High Street on the Mill Brook — 14.1 km away, highest on record 3.08m

81 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (31 at warning level or above), most recently 14 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

BBTB (1971) — about 3 km from the centre
PYMM (1971) — about 1.7 km from the centre
RGOW (1971) — about 3.1 km from the centre
THUP (1971) — about 2.5 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CH1 CH3 CH4 CH5 CH41 CH42 CH43 CH44

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.