Does NE70 flood?

Yes — parts of the NE70 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NE70 postcode district covers Bamburgh, Norham & Islandshires, close to Belford, Warenmill, Warenford, and surrounding villages in Northumberland.

22 postcodes in the NE70 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 4 medium, 2 low, 4 very 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 NE70 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NE70

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

Belford on the Belford Burn — 1.6 km away, highest on record 1.54m
Waren Mill on the Waren Burn — 2.4 km away, highest on record 1.36m
Waren Ford on the Waren Burn — 5.1 km away, highest on record 1.13m
Weetwood Bridge on the River Till — 11.3 km away, highest on record 4.47m

154 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 17 July 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Belford (2023) — about 1.6 km from the centre
Warren Mill (2023) — about 2.2 km from the centre
Belford (2010) — about 1.7 km from the centre
Belford (2009) — about 0.8 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

NE71 NE68 NE67 NE66 NE65 NE64 NE63 NE62

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.