Does NR17 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR17 district carry real flood risk: 17 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR17 postcode district covers All Saints & Wayland, The Buckenhams & Banham, Attleborough Queens & Besthorpe, Attleborough Burgh & Haverscroft, close to Shropham, East Harling, Bridgham, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

25 postcodes in the NR17 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 17 high, 2 medium, 6 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 NR17 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near NR17

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

Redbridge on the River Thet — 2.9 km away, highest on record 2.18m
Quidenham on the River Whittle — 7.1 km away, highest on record 0.86m
Southburgh on the Blackwater River — 9.8 km away, highest on record 1.58m
Bridgham on the River Thet — 10.7 km away, highest on record 1.21m

26 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (5 at warning level or above), most recently 8 December 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 32 km from the centre
1993 Fluival Flood Outline (1993) — about 22.6 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 51.9 km from the centre
September 1968 (1968) — about 1.3 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

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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.