Does NE40 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE40 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE40 postcode district covers Ryton, Crookhill and Stella, Crawcrook and Greenside, close to Woolsington, Rowlands Gill, Ponteland, and surrounding villages in parts of Northumberland and County Durham.

3 postcodes in the NE40 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 2 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 NE40 postcodes are at risk?

NE40 3PD up to High NE40 3QF up to Low NE40 3TD up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE40

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

Woolsington on the Ouse Burn — 6.6 km away, highest on record 1.70m
Rowlands Gill on the River Derwent — 7.2 km away, highest on record 2.37m
Callerton Lane on the River Pont — 7.9 km away, highest on record 2.24m
Blackhall Mill on the River Derwent — 8.7 km away, highest on record 2.57m

13 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 April 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

River Derwent Rural (2008) — about 9.3 km from the centre
Sled Lane (2008) — about 2.8 km from the centre
Haugh Lane, Newburn Industrial Estate (2008) — about 2.2 km from the centre
Wylam (2008) — about 2.8 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

NE39 NE41 NE38 NE42 NE37 NE43 NE36 NE44

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.