Does MK41 flood?

Yes — parts of the MK41 district carry real flood risk: 16 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The MK41 postcode district covers Clapham & Oakley, Renhold & Ravensden, Goldington, Riverfield, close to Bedford, Bromham, Sharnbrook, and surrounding villages in parts of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire.

30 postcodes in the MK41 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 16 high, 3 medium, 11 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 MK41 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near MK41

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

Bedford on the River Great Ouse — 2.6 km away, highest on record 1.42m
Castle Mill on the River Great Ouse — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.12m
Cardington on the River Great Ouse — 4.1 km away, highest on record 2.30m
Bromham on the River Great Ouse — 4.3 km away, highest on record 30.96m

44 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (38 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):

Easter 1998 (1998) — about 2.2 km from the centre
October 1987 (1987) — 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

MK40 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.