Does CW6 flood?

Yes — parts of the CW6 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 15 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CW6 postcode district covers Bunbury, Tarporley, Tattenhall, Wrenbury, close to Wimboldsley Green, Nantwich, Wistaston Green, and surrounding villages in parts of Cheshire East and Cheshire West and Chester.

15 postcodes in the CW6 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 medium, 7 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 CW6 postcodes are at risk?

CW6 9DY up to High CW6 9NL up to High CW6 9PW up to High CW6 9RH up to High CW6 9TU up to High CW6 9AU up to Medium CW6 9NJ up to Medium CW6 9RP up to Medium CW6 9BF up to Low CW6 9BH up to Low CW6 9NX up to Low CW6 9PP up to Low CW6 9QA up to Low CW6 9QH up to Low CW6 9UE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near CW6

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

Tattenhall High Street on the Mill Brook — 8.4 km away, highest on record 3.08m
Ashbrook on the River Weaver — 10.7 km away, highest on record 4.42m
Shrewbridge on the River Weaver — 11.5 km away, highest on record 3.23m
Marshfield Bridge on the Valley Brook — 11.6 km away, highest on record 2.32m

51 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (1 at warning level or above), most recently 14 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

EA01319_06November2000_RiverGowy_BeestonGateFarm (2000) — about 1.7 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

CW5 CW7 CW4 CW8 CW3 CW9 CW10 CW2

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.