Does CW5 flood?

Yes — parts of the CW5 district carry real flood risk: 16 of its 44 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CW5 postcode district covers Bunbury, Wrenbury, close to Nantwich, Wistaston Green, Coxbank, and surrounding villages in Cheshire East.

44 postcodes in the CW5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 16 high, 6 medium, 22 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 CW5 postcodes are at risk?

CW5 5EA up to High CW5 5ED up to High CW5 5EG up to High CW5 5TA up to High CW5 5TE up to High CW5 5TG up to High CW5 5US up to High CW5 6AH up to High CW5 6EA up to High CW5 6XH up to High CW5 7AE up to High CW5 7NN up to High CW5 7PP up to High CW5 8AA up to High CW5 8HG up to High CW5 8LX up to High CW5 6AU up to Medium CW5 6AY up to Medium CW5 7NQ up to Medium CW5 7NU up to Medium CW5 8AY up to Medium CW5 8BP up to Medium CW5 5EH up to Low CW5 5EJ up to Low CW5 5EL up to Low CW5 5EQ up to Low CW5 5GT up to Low CW5 5HT up to Low CW5 5NW up to Low CW5 5ST up to Low CW5 5SY up to Low CW5 5UE up to Low CW5 5UP up to Low CW5 5UW up to Low CW5 5XQ up to Low CW5 5YF up to Low CW5 6DU up to Low CW5 6NE up to Low CW5 6NF up to Low CW5 6XG up to Low CW5 7GA up to Low CW5 8HQ up to Low CW5 8LU up to Low CW5 8NA up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CW5

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

Shrewbridge on the River Weaver — 0.4 km away, highest on record 3.23m
Marshfield Bridge on the Valley Brook — 4 km away, highest on record 2.32m
Audlem on the River Weaver — 9.1 km away, highest on record 2.87m
Ashbrook on the River Weaver — 11.4 km away, highest on record 4.42m

106 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (60 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):

Nantwich - TR Creative Riverside, 3 First Wood St, Nantwich (2023) — about 0.3 km from the centre
Nantwich - Riverside Dental Practice, 1 Welsh Row, Nantwich, CW5 5ED (2023) — about 0.3 km from the centre
Nantwich - Garage on 2nd Wood Street (2023) — about 0.3 km from the centre
Nantwich - NFU Mutual, River House, Weaver Bank, Nantwich (2023) — about 0.3 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

CW4 CW6 CW3 CW7 CW2 CW8 CW1 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.