Does NR20 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR20 district carry real flood risk: 20 of its 51 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR20 postcode district covers Upper Wensum, Lincoln, Eynesford, Mattishall, close to Swanton Morley, Clint Green, Podmore, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

51 postcodes in the NR20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 20 high, 8 medium, 23 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 NR20 postcodes are at risk?

NR20 3EQ up to High NR20 3HJ up to High NR20 3JW up to High NR20 3RG up to High NR20 4AL up to High NR20 4BL up to High NR20 4DD up to High NR20 4HN up to High NR20 4HS up to High NR20 4HT up to High NR20 4HX up to High NR20 5HN up to High NR20 5HR up to High NR20 5LY up to High NR20 5NY up to High NR20 5RE up to High NR20 5RJ up to High NR20 5RL up to High NR20 5RS up to High NR20 5SQ up to High NR20 3RH up to Medium NR20 4DT up to Medium NR20 4RX up to Medium NR20 5HE up to Medium NR20 5HJ up to Medium NR20 5PB up to Medium NR20 5RA up to Medium NR20 5SX up to Medium NR20 3EG up to Low NR20 3EH up to Low NR20 3EJ up to Low NR20 3EN up to Low NR20 3EW up to Low NR20 3PF up to Low NR20 3PG up to Low NR20 3RQ up to Low NR20 4DF up to Low NR20 4HL up to Low NR20 4RQ up to Low NR20 5EW up to Low NR20 5HP up to Low NR20 5HS up to Low NR20 5JH up to Low NR20 5JP up to Low NR20 5JS up to Low NR20 5LE up to Low NR20 5RD up to Low NR20 5RG up to Low NR20 5RN up to Low NR20 5RQ up to Low NR20 5TW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NR20

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

40 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 9 December 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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

NR19 NR21 NR18 NR22 NR17 NR23 NR16 NR24

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.