Does CW10 flood?

Yes — parts of the CW10 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CW10 postcode district covers Middlewich, Shakerley, close to Wimboldsley Green, Davenham, Wheelock, and surrounding villages in parts of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.

16 postcodes in the CW10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 2 medium, 5 low, 5 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 CW10 postcodes are at risk?

CW10 0JG up to High CW10 0JY up to High CW10 9DX up to High CW10 9NF up to High CW10 0JF up to Medium CW10 9ER up to Medium CW10 0GY up to Low CW10 0JE up to Low CW10 0LQ up to Low CW10 9LJ up to Low CW10 9PB up to Low CW10 0GF up to Very low CW10 0JH up to Very low CW10 9EZ up to Very low CW10 9PL up to Very low CW10 9PU up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near CW10

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

Ashbrook on the River Weaver — 5 km away, highest on record 4.42m
Rudheath on the River Dane — 6.6 km away, highest on record 4.20m
Wheelock Crewe Road on the River Wheelock — 8.6 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Hayhurst Bridge on the River Weaver — 8.7 km away, highest on record 3.58m

47 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (28 at warning level or above), most recently 6 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CW11 CW9 CW12 CW8 CW7 CW6 CW5 CW4

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.