Does SK22 flood?

Yes — parts of the SK22 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 34 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SK22 postcode district covers Hayfield, Sett, close to New Mills, Compstall, Glossop, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Derbyshire.

34 postcodes in the SK22 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 13 medium, 10 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 SK22 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near SK22

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

Goytside Farm on the River Goyt — 2.5 km away, highest on record 2.46m
Marple Bridge on the River Goyt — 6.5 km away, highest on record 2.01m
Compstall on the River Etherow — 7.1 km away, highest on record 1.83m
High Street West on the Glossop Brook — 7.8 km away, highest on record 1.84m

80 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 at warning level or above), most recently 14 November 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 55.6 km from the centre
2021 January Flood Incident - Storm Christoph (2021) — about 75.6 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Dennis (2020) — about 79.4 km from the centre
2020 February Flood Incident - Storm Ciara (2020) — about 75.3 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

SK23 SK17 SK16 SK15 SK14 SK13 SK12 SK11

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.