Does L29 flood?

Yes — parts of the L29 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The L29 postcode district covers Park, Ravenmeols, Manor, close to Sefton, Aintree, Bootle, and surrounding villages in parts of Liverpool City Region and Lancashire.

7 postcodes in the L29 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 1 medium, 4 low, 1 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 L29 postcodes are at risk?

L29 3EB up to High L29 8YB up to Medium L29 7WA up to Low L29 7WG up to Low L29 7WH up to Low L29 7WJ up to Low L29 3EA up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near L29

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

Dovers Bridge on the Dovers Brook — 1.5 km away, highest on record 2.59m
Kirkby on the River Alt — 5.7 km away, highest on record 2.22m
Dyers lane on the Sandy Brook — 8.6 km away, highest on record 1.32m
Davis Road on the River Birket — 13 km away, highest on record 3.27m

143 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (63 at warning level or above), most recently 20 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Westbourne Avenue (2020) — about 1.6 km from the centre
Liverpool Road North (2020) — about 2.6 km from the centre
Dovers Brook, Maghull 2019 (2019) — about 1.5 km from the centre
Northway, Maghull (2015) — about 2.7 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

L28 L30 L27 L31 L26 L32 L25 L33

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.