Does NE35 flood?

Parts of the NE35 district carry moderate flood risk: 2 of its 2 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's Medium likelihood band. The NE35 postcode district covers Boldon Colliery, close to Cullercoats, Lamesley, Gosforth, and surrounding villages in parts of Tyne and Wear and County Durham.

2 postcodes in the NE35 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 medium. 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 NE35 postcodes are at risk?

NE35 9EB up to Medium NE35 9EE up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near NE35

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

Team Valley on the River Team — 11.3 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Crag Hall on the Ouse Burn — 11.8 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Houghton Le Spring on the Moors Burn — 12.3 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Chester-Le-Street on the River Wear — 13 km away, highest on record 4.06m

298 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (152 at warning level or above), most recently 18 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

North and South Shields (2013) — about 5 km from the centre
River Don, July 2009 (2009) — about 1.1 km from the centre
River Don 2000 (2000) — about 1.8 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

NE34 NE36 NE33 NE37 NE32 NE38 NE31 NE39

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.