Does NE44 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE44 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 7 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE44 postcode district covers Corbridge, close to Riding Mill, Bywell, Stocksfield Ridley Mill, and surrounding villages in parts of Northumberland and County Durham.

7 postcodes in the NE44 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 2 medium, 3 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 NE44 postcodes are at risk?

NE44 6DH up to High NE44 6DL up to High NE44 6DG up to Medium NE44 6DQ up to Medium NE44 6DN up to Low NE44 6EN up to Low NE44 6EQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NE44

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

Riding Mill on the River Tyne — 1 km away, highest on record 5.99m
Bywell on the River Tyne — 2.1 km away, highest on record 6.96m
Stocksfield Ridley Mill on the Stocksfield Burn — 3.9 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Corbridge on the River Tyne — 4.4 km away, highest on record 5.76m

56 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 at warning level or above), most recently 13 November 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Riding Mill 5-6 Dec 2015 (2015) — about 0 km from the centre
Storm Desmond in Corbridge 5-6 December 2015 (2015) — about 4.5 km from the centre
Storm Desmond in Bywell 5-6 December 2015 (2015) — about 3.1 km from the centre
River Derwent Rural (2008) — about 12 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

NE43 NE45 NE42 NE46 NE41 NE47 NE40 NE48

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.