Does LA19 flood?

Yes — parts of the LA19 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The LA19 postcode district covers Millom Without, close to Eskdale Green, Beckfoot, Hall Dunnerdale, and surrounding villages in Cumberland.

18 postcodes in the LA19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 3 medium, 1 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 LA19 postcodes are at risk?

LA19 5TH up to High LA19 5TJ up to High LA19 5UG up to High LA19 5UL up to High LA19 5UQ up to High LA19 5XL up to High LA19 5YA up to High LA19 5YB up to High LA19 5YF up to High LA19 5YG up to High LA19 5YH up to High LA19 5YJ up to High LA19 5YQ up to High LA19 5TX up to Medium LA19 5UH up to Medium LA19 5XS up to Medium LA19 5YW up to Low LA19 5YR up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near LA19

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

Cropple How on the River Esk — 7.6 km away, highest on record 2.36m
Duddon Hall on the River Duddon — 9.6 km away, highest on record 2.61m
Ulpha on the River Duddon — 11.6 km away, highest on record 2.07m
Galesyke on the River Irt — 13.4 km away, highest on record 2.01m

134 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (22 at warning level or above), most recently 4 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Storm Ciara 09_02_2020 (2020) — about 44.3 km from the centre
Bootle November 2009 flooding (2009) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Flooding 01_02_2002 (2002) — about 18.6 km from the centre
Flooding 24_10_2000 (2000) — about 15.7 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

LA18 LA20 LA17 LA21 LA16 LA22 LA15 LA23

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.