Does SY12 flood?

Yes — parts of the SY12 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 9 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SY12 postcode district covers St Martin's, The Meres, Ellesmere Urban in Shropshire.

9 postcodes in the SY12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 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 SY12 postcodes are at risk?

SY12 0JH up to High SY12 0NQ up to High SY12 9EB up to High SY12 9EW up to High SY12 9HE up to High SY12 0NF up to Medium SY12 0BX up to Low SY12 9EN up to Low SY12 9PF up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near SY12

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

Maesbrook on the Flood Channel — 17.8 km away, highest on record 1.75m
Yeaton on the River Perry — 17.9 km away, highest on record 1.13m
Llanyblodwel on the River Tanat — 19.3 km away, highest on record 2.68m
Cae Howel on the River Severn — 19.8 km away, highest on record 6.28m

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

SY11 SY13 SY10 SY14 SY15 SY9 SY8 SY7

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.