Does HD3 flood?

Yes — parts of the HD3 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HD3 postcode district covers Golcar, Lindley, Greenhead, Greetland and Stainland, close to Huddersfield Royd Street, Huddersfield, Huddersfield Willow Lane, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

27 postcodes in the HD3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 medium, 19 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 HD3 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near HD3

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

Huddersfield Royd Street on the Longwood Brook — 0.5 km away, highest on record 0.78m
Huddersfield Longroyd Bridge on the River Colne — 2.6 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Queen's Mill on the River Holme — 3.2 km away, highest on record 2.94m
Huddersfield Willow Lane on the Grimescar Dike — 3.4 km away, highest on record 0.54m

370 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (161 at warning level or above), most recently 27 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 16.4 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 49.7 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 58.6 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

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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.