Does SK3 flood?

Yes — parts of the SK3 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SK3 postcode district covers Edgeley, close to Stockport, Cheadle, Bredbury, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Cheshire East.

9 postcodes in the SK3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 1 medium, 7 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 SK3 postcodes are at risk?

SK3 0BT up to High SK3 0AG up to Medium SK3 0AL up to Low SK3 0AS up to Low SK3 0BD up to Low SK3 0BN up to Low SK3 0BQ up to Low SK3 0BR up to Low SK3 0BY up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SK3

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

Brinksway on the River Mersey — 0.3 km away, highest on record 5.03m
Portwood on the River Tame — 2.6 km away, highest on record 2.26m
Bramhall Green Bridge Lane on the Micker Brook — 3.9 km away
Didsbury River on the River Mersey — 4.4 km away, highest on record 7.69m

147 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (88 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):

Stockport Stockport - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 0.1 km from the centre
Stockport Cheadle - NYE/NYD 25 (2025) — about 2.3 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

SK2 SK4 SK1 SK6 SK7 SK8 SK9 SK10

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.