Does M41 flood?

Yes — parts of the M41 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 52 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The M41 postcode district covers Flixton, Davyhulme, Urmston, Bucklow-St Martins, close to Partington, Alder Forest, Glazebrook, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Warrington.

52 postcodes in the M41 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 6 medium, 31 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 M41 postcodes are at risk?

M41 6AA up to High M41 6AS up to High M41 6HU up to High M41 6JZ up to High M41 6LA up to High M41 6LB up to High M41 6LJ up to High M41 6LU up to High M41 6PB up to High M41 6PE up to High M41 6WF up to High M41 6WG up to High M41 6WR up to High M41 7NG up to High M41 8PE up to High M41 6EP up to Medium M41 6EQ up to Medium M41 6HS up to Medium M41 6HT up to Medium M41 6JE up to Medium M41 6LW up to Medium M41 6EF up to Low M41 6ER up to Low M41 6GX up to Low M41 6HX up to Low M41 6LS up to Low M41 6PA up to Low M41 6PG up to Low M41 6PQ up to Low M41 6PR up to Low M41 6PS up to Low M41 6PT up to Low M41 6PU up to Low M41 6PX up to Low M41 6PY up to Low M41 6QG up to Low M41 6QR up to Low M41 6QU up to Low M41 6QW up to Low M41 6TZ up to Low M41 7NA up to Low M41 7NT up to Low M41 8NT up to Low M41 8NU up to Low M41 8PH up to Low M41 9GP up to Low M41 9HF up to Low M41 9JA up to Low M41 9JT up to Low M41 9LB up to Low M41 9QP up to Low M41 9WL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near M41

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

Flixton Bridge on the River Mersey — 0.8 km away, highest on record 4.92m
Partington on the Sinderland Brook — 4.4 km away, highest on record 1.58m
Chestnut Road on the Worsley Brook — 5.4 km away, highest on record 2.14m
Little Woolden Hall on the Glaze Brook — 6.2 km away, highest on record 3.58m

304 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (72 at warning level or above), most recently 21 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

MERS (1998) — about 0.8 km from the centre
MERS (1998) — about 0.6 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

M40 M43 M44 M45 M46 M34 M33 M32

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.