Does NR23 flood?

Yes — parts of the NR23 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 73 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NR23 postcode district covers Wells with Holkham, Coastal, Priory, close to Wells-Next-The-Sea, Little Walsingham, South Creake, and surrounding villages in Norfolk.

73 postcodes in the NR23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 4 medium, 17 low, 39 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 NR23 postcodes are at risk?

NR23 1AH up to High NR23 1AQ up to High NR23 1AR up to High NR23 1AT up to High NR23 1AX up to High NR23 1DR up to High NR23 1FA up to High NR23 1JT up to High NR23 1JY up to High NR23 1LD up to High NR23 1LE up to High NR23 1QJ up to High NR23 1QP up to High NR23 1AJ up to Medium NR23 1DF up to Medium NR23 1JX up to Medium NR23 1NL up to Medium NR23 1AD up to Low NR23 1AS up to Low NR23 1AU up to Low NR23 1AZ up to Low NR23 1BA up to Low NR23 1BF up to Low NR23 1BG up to Low NR23 1BH up to Low NR23 1FD up to Low NR23 1JS up to Low NR23 1LA up to Low NR23 1LB up to Low NR23 1LS up to Low NR23 1QD up to Low NR23 1QH up to Low NR23 1RJ up to Low NR23 1RN up to Low NR23 1BB up to Very low NR23 1BE up to Very low NR23 1BJ up to Very low NR23 1BL up to Very low NR23 1BN up to Very low NR23 1BQ up to Very low NR23 1BW up to Very low NR23 1ED up to Very low NR23 1EE up to Very low NR23 1EG up to Very low NR23 1EH up to Very low NR23 1EJ up to Very low NR23 1EL up to Very low NR23 1EN up to Very low NR23 1EQ up to Very low NR23 1ES up to Very low NR23 1ET up to Very low NR23 1FB up to Very low NR23 1HF up to Very low NR23 1HJ up to Very low NR23 1HL up to Very low NR23 1HN up to Very low NR23 1HP up to Very low NR23 1HR up to Very low NR23 1HS up to Very low NR23 1HW up to Very low NR23 1HZ up to Very low NR23 1JA up to Very low NR23 1JG up to Very low NR23 1JJ up to Very low NR23 1LR up to Very low NR23 1LT up to Very low NR23 1LW up to Very low NR23 1LX up to Very low NR23 1LY up to Very low NR23 1QY up to Very low NR23 1RG up to Very low NR23 1RL up to Very low NR23 1UA up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near NR23

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

401 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (62 at warning level or above), most recently 14 August 2026. 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

NR22 NR24 NR21 NR25 NR20 NR19 NR27 NR18

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.