Does S72 flood?

Yes — parts of the S72 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The S72 postcode district covers Cudworth, Hemsworth, Darfield, close to Cundy Cross, Stonyford Bridge, Barnsley, and surrounding villages in parts of South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire.

23 postcodes in the S72 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 5 medium, 3 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 S72 postcodes are at risk?

S72 0AJ up to High S72 0BF up to High S72 0BH up to High S72 0HR up to High S72 7BD up to High S72 7BN up to High S72 7EH up to High S72 7EP up to High S72 7FR up to High S72 7FT up to High S72 7GA up to High S72 8EH up to High S72 8RE up to High S72 9AB up to High S72 9BG up to High S72 7FZ up to Medium S72 8BW up to Medium S72 8PL up to Medium S72 8PW up to Medium S72 8UX up to Medium S72 0BQ up to Low S72 7EJ up to Low S72 7FL up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near S72

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

Houghton on the River Dearne — 3.8 km away, highest on record 2.11m
Cundy Cross on the River Dearne — 4.5 km away, highest on record 3.84m
Darfield Bridge on the River Dearne — 4.7 km away, highest on record 4.41m
Stonyford Bridge on the River Dove — 5.3 km away

67 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (29 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):

2022 February Flood Incident -Storm Dudley, Eunice and Franklin (2022) — about 16 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 34.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

S71 S73 S70 S74 S75 S66 S65 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.