Does CH42 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH42 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH42 postcode district covers Rock Ferry, close to Upton (Wirral), Moreton, Bootle, and surrounding villages in parts of Liverpool City Region and Cheshire West and Chester.

4 postcodes in the CH42 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 1 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 CH42 postcodes are at risk?

CH42 1LQ up to High CH42 1LS up to High CH42 1PU up to High CH42 1PJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CH42

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

Greasby Road on the Arrowe Brook — 7.2 km away, highest on record 1.38m
Davis Road on the River Birket — 7.3 km away, highest on record 3.27m
Acton Lane on the Arrowe Brook — 8.4 km away, highest on record 1.61m
Fornalls Bridge on the River Birket — 10.3 km away, highest on record 1.57m

118 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 4 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

MERE (2002) — about 0.7 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

CH41 CH43 CH44 CH45 CH46 CH47 CH48 CH49

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.