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Does S70 flood?

Yes — parts of the S70 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 42 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S70 postcode district covers Kingstone, Worsbrough, Stairfoot, Penistone East, close to Barnsley, Cundy Cross, Darton, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

42 postcodes in the S70 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 3 medium, 28 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 S70 postcodes are at risk?

S70 3NS up to High S70 3QE up to High S70 3QH up to High S70 3QJ up to High S70 3QL up to High S70 3QR up to High S70 3QT up to High S70 3QU up to High S70 3QX up to High S70 5LJ up to High S70 6HP up to High S70 3RW up to Medium S70 5UD up to Medium S70 6BZ up to Medium S70 1GW up to Low S70 1RJ up to Low S70 1RR up to Low S70 1SE up to Low S70 1SH up to Low S70 1SJ up to Low S70 1YA up to Low S70 2JL up to Low S70 2NH up to Low S70 2NP up to Low S70 2NZ up to Low S70 2PL up to Low S70 2QT up to Low S70 3QN up to Low S70 3QZ up to Low S70 4SZ up to Low S70 6BN up to Low S70 6BP up to Low S70 6BS up to Low S70 6BT up to Low S70 6BU up to Low S70 6BX up to Low S70 6BY up to Low S70 6EB up to Low S70 6EQ up to Low S70 6HF up to Low S70 6HH up to Low S70 6HS up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S70

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

70 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (32 at warning level or above), most recently 5 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S71 S72 S73 S66 S74 S65 S75 S64

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.