Does HG1 flood?

Yes — parts of the HG1 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 6 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HG1 postcode district covers Bilton Grange & New Park, Bilton & Nidd Gorge, close to Burn Bridge, Birstwith, Bishop Monkton, and surrounding villages in parts of North Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

6 postcodes in the HG1 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 5 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 HG1 postcodes are at risk?

HG1 3LU up to High HG1 2BB up to Low HG1 2BX up to Low HG1 3EB up to Low HG1 3HG up to Low HG1 3HQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HG1

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

Burn Bridge on the River Crimple — 5.4 km away, highest on record 1.22m
Birstwith on the River Nidd — 7.4 km away, highest on record 3.66m
Bishop Monkton on the Bishop Monkton Beck — 9.6 km away, highest on record 0.84m
Blackstones Farm on the River Crimple — 11.2 km away, highest on record 2.98m

80 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (49 at warning level or above), most recently 23 January 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 20.9 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 21.8 km from the centre
2020 Oct_Nov Flood Incident - Hurricane Epsilon (2020) — about 2.7 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 24.8 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

HG2 HG3 HG4 HG5

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.