Does CW2 flood?

Yes — parts of the CW2 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 28 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CW2 postcode district covers Shavington, Haslington, Wistaston, Wybunbury, close to Wistaston Green, Nantwich, Wheelock, and surrounding villages in Cheshire East.

28 postcodes in the CW2 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 high, 8 medium, 10 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 CW2 postcodes are at risk?

CW2 5BN up to High CW2 5BP up to High CW2 5BX up to High CW2 5DL up to High CW2 5DW up to High CW2 5JS up to High CW2 6PW up to High CW2 7RJ up to High CW2 8EG up to High CW2 8EL up to High CW2 5BL up to Medium CW2 5BS up to Medium CW2 5BW up to Medium CW2 5DD up to Medium CW2 5DN up to Medium CW2 5FQ up to Medium CW2 5JN up to Medium CW2 5PE up to Medium CW2 5BJ up to Low CW2 5NL up to Low CW2 5NX up to Low CW2 5SW up to Low CW2 5YF up to Low CW2 5YG up to Low CW2 5YH up to Low CW2 6RR up to Low CW2 7PD up to Low CW2 8EJ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CW2

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

107 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (61 at warning level or above), most recently 18 December 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

CW1 CW3 CW4 CW5 CW6 CW7 CW8 CW9

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.