Does NR19 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR19 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR19 postcode district covers Shipdham-with-Scarning, Mattishall, Launditch, Dereham Withburga, close to Podmore, Clint Green, Swanton Morley, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

18 postcodes in the NR19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 8 medium, 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 NR19 postcodes are at risk?

NR19 1QU up to High NR19 2HT up to High NR19 2HX up to High NR19 2JF up to High NR19 2LJ up to High NR19 2NU up to High NR19 2NW up to High NR19 2QD up to High NR19 1NP up to Medium NR19 1QF up to Medium NR19 2BL up to Medium NR19 2DL up to Medium NR19 2DN up to Medium NR19 2LP up to Medium NR19 2NL up to Medium NR19 2NT up to Medium NR19 1JQ up to Low NR19 1QG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NR19

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

Wendling Beck on the Wendling Beck — 1.4 km away, highest on record 1.68m
Stone Road Farm on the River Tud — 5.7 km away, highest on record 1.74m
Swanton Morley on the River Wensum — 7.7 km away, highest on record 1.10m
Southburgh on the Blackwater River — 8.6 km away, highest on record 1.58m

7 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (7 at warning level or above), most recently 16 January 2020. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 48.1 km from the centre
1993 Fluival Flood Outline (1993) — about 12.3 km from the centre
1953 Coast Flood Outline Norfolk (1953) — about 25.4 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

NR18 NR20 NR17 NR21 NR16 NR22 NR15 NR23

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.