Does NE19 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE19 district carry real flood risk: 6 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE19 postcode district covers Bellingham, Rothbury, close to Elishaw, Otterburn, Redesmouth, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

18 postcodes in the NE19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 6 high, 4 medium, 8 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 NE19 postcodes are at risk?

NE19 1JT up to High NE19 1NP up to High NE19 1RH up to High NE19 2PE up to High NE19 2PN up to High NE19 2SA up to High NE19 1NR up to Medium NE19 1RF up to Medium NE19 1TD up to Medium NE19 2RT up to Medium NE19 1AA up to Low NE19 1JX up to Low NE19 1LE up to Low NE19 1LF up to Low NE19 1RY up to Low NE19 1TF up to Low NE19 1TQ up to Low NE19 1TS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE19

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

Otterburn on the River Rede — 1.4 km away, highest on record 3.58m
Otterburn Mill on the River Rede — 1.7 km away, highest on record 4.23m
Rede Bridge on the River Rede — 10.5 km away, highest on record 3.08m
Hareshaw Burn on the Hareshaw Burn — 11 km away

83 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (11 at warning level or above), most recently 12 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Otterburn (2024) — about 1.5 km from the centre
09/02/2020 Storm Ciara - Otterburn Mill - Simple marker outline as extent not know (2020) — about 1.5 km from the centre
Dunns Cottge (2005) — about 1 km from the centre
Otterburn Mill (2005) — about 1.6 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

NE18 NE20 NE17 NE21 NE16 NE22 NE15 NE23

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.