Does NE22 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE22 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE22 postcode district covers Sleekburn, Bebside & Kitty Brewster, close to Hartford Bridge, Blyth, Morpeth, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

3 postcodes in the NE22 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 1 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 NE22 postcodes are at risk?

NE22 5RY up to High NE22 7AS up to High NE22 7EG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE22

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

Hartford Bridge on the River Blyth — 4.4 km away, highest on record 2.46m
Morpeth on the River Wansbeck — 8.8 km away, highest on record 28.05m
Mitford on the River Wansbeck — 10.7 km away, highest on record 4.07m
Gosforth on the Ouse Burn — 13.7 km away, highest on record 2.20m

18 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (13 at warning level or above), most recently 8 October 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Blyth (2013) — about 1.9 km from the centre
Lower River Wanseck (2008) — about 4.9 km from the centre
Scotland Gate at Chopington (2005) — about 2.6 km from the centre
Bedlington (1973) — about 2.1 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

NE21 NE23 NE20 NE24 NE19 NE25 NE18 NE26

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.