Does OL10 flood?

Yes — parts of the OL10 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OL10 postcode district covers Bamford, Norden, North Heywood, Hopwood Hall, close to Rochdale, Bury, Smallbridge, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Lancashire.

9 postcodes in the OL10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 5 low. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

Free preview first · full report £19

Which OL10 postcodes are at risk?

OL10 4AP up to High OL10 4BD up to High OL10 4BE up to High OL10 4DJ up to High OL10 2JY up to Low OL10 2RF up to Low OL10 3JY up to Low OL10 4AL up to Low OL10 4HT up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OL10

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

Rochdale on the River Roch — 3.4 km away, highest on record 2.22m
Bury Ground on the River Irwell — 5.3 km away, highest on record 2.18m
Blackford Bridge on the River Roch — 5.7 km away, highest on record 3.36m
Albert Royds Bridge on the River Roch — 6.6 km away, highest on record 2.43m

193 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (100 at warning level or above), most recently 14 December 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Smalley Street (2019) — about 3 km from the centre
Heap Bridge (2015) — about 2.9 km from the centre
ROCH (1980) — about 3.3 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

🏠 Buying or renting in OL10? The full property flood-risk report covers any postcode here — the official likelihood band, every recorded flood nearby with distances, warning history year by year, how the local rivers behave, and an insurance outlook, print-ready for £19. See what's in the report →

Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

OL11 OL9 OL12 OL8 OL13 OL14 OL6 OL15

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.