Does CW12 flood?

Yes — parts of the CW12 district carry real flood risk: 25 of its 90 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CW12 postcode district covers Gawsworth, Odd Rode, close to Congleton, Rushton Spencer, Knypersley, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and Cheshire East.

90 postcodes in the CW12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 25 high, 19 medium, 46 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 CW12 postcodes are at risk?

CW12 1AQ up to High CW12 1AY up to High CW12 1FR up to High CW12 1LG up to High CW12 1XD up to High CW12 2AD up to High CW12 2AE up to High CW12 2AH up to High CW12 2DN up to High CW12 2EZ up to High CW12 2HA up to High CW12 2HF up to High CW12 2HY up to High CW12 2HZ up to High CW12 2NB up to High CW12 2NF up to High CW12 2PE up to High CW12 2PL up to High CW12 3BN up to High CW12 3BW up to High CW12 3SB up to High CW12 4HR up to High CW12 4HU up to High CW12 4JU up to High CW12 4TJ up to High CW12 1AU up to Medium CW12 1BA up to Medium CW12 1BD up to Medium CW12 1DA up to Medium CW12 1DB up to Medium CW12 1DJ up to Medium CW12 1EQ up to Medium CW12 1FS up to Medium CW12 1HN up to Medium CW12 1HR up to Medium CW12 1HS up to Medium CW12 1JG up to Medium CW12 1PN up to Medium CW12 2JS up to Medium CW12 3LP up to Medium CW12 3NE up to Medium CW12 4QF up to Medium CW12 4RR up to Medium CW12 4SE up to Medium CW12 1AB up to Low CW12 1AG up to Low CW12 1AP up to Low CW12 1AR up to Low CW12 1AS up to Low CW12 1AX up to Low CW12 1BG up to Low CW12 1BP up to Low CW12 1BQ up to Low CW12 1DE up to Low CW12 1DF up to Low CW12 1DL up to Low CW12 1DT up to Low CW12 1EE up to Low CW12 1EH up to Low CW12 1ES up to Low CW12 1ET up to Low CW12 1GD up to Low CW12 1HF up to Low CW12 1HL up to Low CW12 1HT up to Low CW12 1HU up to Low CW12 1JJ up to Low CW12 1JZ up to Low CW12 1LJ up to Low CW12 1NG up to Low CW12 1PL up to Low CW12 1RP up to Low CW12 1UN up to Low CW12 1WB up to Low CW12 1YJ up to Low CW12 2FP up to Low CW12 2FR up to Low CW12 2FX up to Low CW12 2NZ up to Low CW12 3LN up to Low CW12 4AL up to Low CW12 4BA up to Low CW12 4BF up to Low CW12 4DR up to Low CW12 4HX up to Low CW12 4SB up to Low CW12 4SL up to Low CW12 4TF up to Low CW12 4TH up to Low CW12 4XQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CW12

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

19 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 1 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

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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.