Does CH65 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH65 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 21 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH65 postcode district covers Gowy Rural, Westminster, Netherpool, close to Ellesmere Port, Bridge Trafford, Chester, and surrounding villages in parts of Cheshire West and Chester and Liverpool City Region.

21 postcodes in the CH65 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 1 medium, 8 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 CH65 postcodes are at risk?

CH65 4AJ up to High CH65 4BF up to High CH65 4EF up to High CH65 4EJ up to High CH65 4EL up to High CH65 4EQ up to High CH65 4ET up to High CH65 4EY up to High CH65 4FF up to High CH65 4LB up to High CH65 4LD up to High CH65 4LE up to High CH65 1AD up to Medium CH65 1AB up to Low CH65 2AL up to Low CH65 2JF up to Low CH65 4EN up to Low CH65 4EP up to Low CH65 4FL up to Low CH65 4FW up to Low CH65 4FY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CH65

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

Bridge Trafford on the River Gowy — 6.9 km away, highest on record 2.57m
Knolls Bridge, Chester on the Finchett's Gutter — 7.7 km away, highest on record 8.15m
Countess Way, Abbot's Mead on the Finchett's Gutter — 8.9 km away
Winster Drive on the Netherley Brook — 11.7 km away, highest on record 2.92m

18 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (18 at warning level or above), most recently 6 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Ascot Drive and Chase Way, Great Sutton (2023) — about 3.5 km from the centre
Ellsemere Port (2021) — about 3.6 km from the centre
EA01318_05_September_2008_Rivacre_ChaseWay (2008) — about 3.5 km from the centre
THOR (2002) — about 2.8 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

CH64 CH66 CH63 CH62 CH61 CH60 CH49 CH48

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.