Does PE5 flood?

Yes — parts of the PE5 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 4 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The PE5 postcode district covers Glinton and Castor, Wittering, close to Wansford, Peterborough, Fotheringhay, and surrounding villages in parts of Lincolnshire and City of Peterborough.

4 postcodes in the PE5 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high. 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 PE5 postcodes are at risk?

PE5 7AX up to High PE5 7BD up to High PE5 7BT up to High PE5 7XD up to High

Rivers and flooding history near PE5

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

Wansford on the River Nene — 4 km away, highest on record 2.94m
FOTHERINGHAY GS — 7 km away
Fotheringhay on the Willow Brook — 7 km away, highest on record 1.94m
Tallington on the River Welland — 10 km away, highest on record 2.05m

16 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (13 at warning level or above), most recently 29 November 2024. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

LNA_1998_April_River Welland (1998) — about 18.5 km from the centre
LNA_1998_April_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1998) — about 26.6 km from the centre
LNA_1947_March_River Nene_d/s Northampton (1947) — about 26.4 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

PE4 PE6 PE3 PE7 PE2 PE8 PE1 PE9

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.