Does MK40 flood?

Yes — parts of the MK40 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 62 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The MK40 postcode district covers Greyfriars, Great Denham, Castle & Newnham, Queens Park, close to Bedford, Bromham, Sharnbrook, and surrounding villages in parts of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire.

62 postcodes in the MK40 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 3 medium, 52 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 MK40 postcodes are at risk?

MK40 1TF up to High MK40 3PE up to High MK40 3QF up to High MK40 4AH up to High MK40 4WG up to High MK40 1TH up to Medium MK40 4JS up to Medium MK40 4LU up to Medium MK40 0AS up to Low MK40 1AR up to Low MK40 1AS up to Low MK40 1AT up to Low MK40 1AY up to Low MK40 1BN up to Low MK40 1HJ up to Low MK40 1HP up to Low MK40 1LJ up to Low MK40 1LR up to Low MK40 1LX up to Low MK40 1PJ up to Low MK40 1PL up to Low MK40 1PR up to Low MK40 1PS up to Low MK40 1PW up to Low MK40 1PX up to Low MK40 1QB up to Low MK40 1QS up to Low MK40 1QU up to Low MK40 1QX up to Low MK40 1RA up to Low MK40 1RB up to Low MK40 1RD up to Low MK40 1RH up to Low MK40 1SQ up to Low MK40 1TE up to Low MK40 1TJ up to Low MK40 1TP up to Low MK40 1TS up to Low MK40 1TU up to Low MK40 1UH up to Low MK40 3NZ up to Low MK40 3PA up to Low MK40 3SB up to Low MK40 4GS up to Low MK40 4JN up to Low MK40 4JP up to Low MK40 4JW up to Low MK40 4JY up to Low MK40 4LA up to Low MK40 4RU up to Low MK40 4RX up to Low MK40 4SQ up to Low MK40 4SR up to Low MK40 4SS up to Low MK40 4ST up to Low MK40 4WJ up to Low MK40 4WL up to Low MK40 4WN up to Low MK40 4WR up to Low MK40 9AB up to Low MK40 3UX up to Very low MK40 3UY up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near MK40

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

32 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (26 at warning level or above), most recently 6 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

MK41 MK42 MK43 MK44 MK45 MK46 MK19 MK18

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.