Does CV9 flood?

Yes — parts of the CV9 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 56 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CV9 postcode district covers Atherstone North, Twycross and Witherley with Sheepy, Atherstone South and Mancetter, Hurley and Wood End, close to Mancetter, Polesworth, Temple Mill, Twycross, and surrounding villages in parts of Warwickshire and Staffordshire.

56 postcodes in the CV9 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 7 medium, 28 low, 2 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 CV9 postcodes are at risk?

CV9 1BA up to High CV9 1NH up to High CV9 1RF up to High CV9 2BD up to High CV9 2EX up to High CV9 2JL up to High CV9 2JN up to High CV9 2JP up to High CV9 2JW up to High CV9 3AH up to High CV9 3DN up to High CV9 3DT up to High CV9 3LP up to High CV9 3QR up to High CV9 3QU up to High CV9 3RF up to High CV9 3RJ up to High CV9 3RT up to High CV9 3RU up to High CV9 1BJ up to Medium CV9 1NR up to Medium CV9 2GA up to Medium CV9 2GB up to Medium CV9 2QX up to Medium CV9 3AB up to Medium CV9 3LS up to Medium CV9 1NN up to Low CV9 1NP up to Low CV9 1RS up to Low CV9 2PU up to Low CV9 2QZ up to Low CV9 2SL up to Low CV9 3AD up to Low CV9 3AP up to Low CV9 3AR up to Low CV9 3AS up to Low CV9 3AT up to Low CV9 3AW up to Low CV9 3AX up to Low CV9 3AY up to Low CV9 3AZ up to Low CV9 3BS up to Low CV9 3LG up to Low CV9 3NB up to Low CV9 3NX up to Low CV9 3QW up to Low CV9 3RL up to Low CV9 3RS up to Low CV9 3SH up to Low CV9 3SJ up to Low CV9 3SL up to Low CV9 3SN up to Low CV9 3SR up to Low CV9 3SZ up to Low CV9 2JJ up to Very low CV9 3RG up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near CV9

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

Mancetter on the River Anker — 2.6 km away, highest on record 2.15m
Temple Mill on the River Sence — 6.9 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Nuneaton on the River Anker — 10.3 km away, highest on record 2.13m
Lea Marston on the River Tame — 11 km away, highest on record 1.99m

410 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (150 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

December 1992 - River Trent (1992) — about 1 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CV10 CV8 CV11 CV7 CV12 CV6 CV13 CV5

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.