Does HD7 flood?

Yes — parts of the HD7 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 54 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HD7 postcode district covers Colne Valley, Golcar, close to Slaithwaite, Marsden, Huddersfield Royd Street, and surrounding villages in parts of West Yorkshire and Greater Manchester.

54 postcodes in the HD7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 12 medium, 27 low, 2 very 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 HD7 postcodes are at risk?

HD7 5BB up to High HD7 5BE up to High HD7 5BG up to High HD7 5BN up to High HD7 5BQ up to High HD7 5BR up to High HD7 5BZ up to High HD7 5FE up to High HD7 5QY up to High HD7 6DB up to High HD7 6DD up to High HD7 6HH up to High HD7 6NJ up to High HD7 4EH up to Medium HD7 5AB up to Medium HD7 5AR up to Medium HD7 5AS up to Medium HD7 5AU up to Medium HD7 6BJ up to Medium HD7 6DN up to Medium HD7 6EJ up to Medium HD7 6EL up to Medium HD7 6EW up to Medium HD7 6JJ up to Medium HD7 6JN up to Medium HD7 5BA up to Low HD7 5BD up to Low HD7 5BL up to Low HD7 5BS up to Low HD7 5JN up to Low HD7 5QE up to Low HD7 5QG up to Low HD7 5QL up to Low HD7 5QN up to Low HD7 5QQ up to Low HD7 5RR up to Low HD7 6AB up to Low HD7 6AY up to Low HD7 6AZ up to Low HD7 6BL up to Low HD7 6BN up to Low HD7 6BU up to Low HD7 6BZ up to Low HD7 6DA up to Low HD7 6DE up to Low HD7 6DG up to Low HD7 6DH up to Low HD7 6EA up to Low HD7 6JL up to Low HD7 6LS up to Low HD7 6LY up to Low HD7 6NQ up to Low HD7 5AG up to Very low HD7 5FB up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near HD7

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

Slaithwaite on the Crimble Clough — 2.1 km away
Marsden on the River Colne — 2.3 km away, highest on record 2.23m
Huddersfield Royd Street on the Longwood Brook — 5.6 km away, highest on record 0.78m
Stainland Board Mills on the Black Brook — 6.2 km away, highest on record 0.81m

100 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (47 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 21.7 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 55.3 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 63.8 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara (2020) — about 55.9 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.