Does CH66 flood?

Yes — parts of the CH66 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 19 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CH66 postcode district covers Ledsham & Manor, Sutton Villages, Netherpool, Willaston & Thornton, close to Ellesmere Port, Chester, Abbot's Mead, Chester, and surrounding villages in parts of Cheshire West and Chester and Liverpool City Region.

19 postcodes in the CH66 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 2 medium, 9 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 CH66 postcodes are at risk?

CH66 2GX up to High CH66 4DB up to High CH66 4DN up to High CH66 4JS up to High CH66 4QW up to High CH66 4TX up to High CH66 4TZ up to High CH66 7NZ up to High CH66 4QR up to Medium CH66 4XU up to Medium CH66 1SN up to Low CH66 2GY up to Low CH66 2NA up to Low CH66 2NF up to Low CH66 3NS up to Low CH66 4DE up to Low CH66 4DG up to Low CH66 4TY up to Low CH66 4YY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CH66

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

Knolls Bridge, Chester on the Finchett's Gutter — 7 km away, highest on record 8.15m
Countess Way, Abbot's Mead on the Finchett's Gutter — 8.3 km away
Bridge Trafford on the River Gowy — 9 km away, highest on record 2.57m
Winster Drive on the Netherley Brook — 14.4 km away, highest on record 2.92m

46 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 8 October 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Hooton - 12 Chestnut Farm,13 Chestnut Farm Hooton Green (2023) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Hooton - The Chimney Public house, The Coach House (2023) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Kendal Drive (2023) — about 1.3 km from the centre
Spinney Drive (2023) — about 1.2 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

CH65 CH64 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.