Does WA12 flood?

Yes — parts of the WA12 district carry real flood risk: 2 of its 5 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WA12 postcode district covers Newton-le-Willows East, close to Warrington, Dallam, Ashton-In-Makerfield, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater Manchester and Warrington.

5 postcodes in the WA12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 high, 1 medium, 1 low, 1 very 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 WA12 postcodes are at risk?

WA12 8PS up to High WA12 8SP up to High WA12 8TE up to Medium WA12 8EA up to Low WA12 8PT up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near WA12

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

Causey Bridge on the Sankey Brook — 2.2 km away, highest on record 3.20m
Higham Avenue on the Sankey Brook — 4.3 km away, highest on record 3.82m
Lincoln Drive on the Millingford Brook — 4.5 km away, highest on record 2.52m
Ivy Street, Ashton-In-Makerfield on the Millingford Brook — 4.9 km away, highest on record 2.01m

574 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (241 at warning level or above), most recently 20 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Warrington (2021) — about 4.2 km from the centre
Warrington (2021) — about 4.8 km from the centre
SANK (2000) — about 3.1 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

WA11 WA13 WA10 WA14 WA15 WA9 WA16 WA8

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.