Does OL8 flood?

Yes — parts of the OL8 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 3 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OL8 postcode district covers Alexandra, close to Mossley, Shaw, Greenfield, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.

3 postcodes in the OL8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 1 medium. 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 OL8 postcodes are at risk?

OL8 2AX up to High OL8 2BH up to High OL8 2JS up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near OL8

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

Waggon Road on the River Tame — 4.8 km away, highest on record 3.28m
Mossley Micklehurst Road on the Micklehurst Brook — 5.2 km away
Bridge Street Shaw on the River Beal — 6 km away, highest on record 1.38m
Uppermill on the River Tame — 6.4 km away, highest on record 1.24m

61 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (61 at warning level or above), most recently 1 January 2025. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 46.9 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 79.4 km from the centre
June 2007 Flood Event (Ridings Area) (2007) — about 40.1 km from the centre
EA01326_01 August 2002_BridgeInn (2002) — about 1.8 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

OL9 OL10 OL6 OL11 OL5 OL12 OL4 OL13

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.