Does WR13 flood?

Yes — parts of the WR13 district carry real flood risk: 11 of its 27 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WR13 postcode district covers Castlemorton, Welland & Wells, Bishops Frome & Cradley, Hope End, Alfrick, Leigh & Rushwick, close to Bosbury, Bransford, Callow End, and surrounding villages in parts of Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.

27 postcodes in the WR13 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 11 high, 9 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 WR13 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near WR13

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

Bosbury on the River Leadon — 8 km away, highest on record 1.96m
Bransford on the River Teme — 9.3 km away, highest on record 6.09m
Kempsey Yacht Club on the River Severn — 10.2 km away, highest on record 7.49m
Saxons Lode on the River Severn — 10.3 km away, highest on record 5.93m

306 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 13 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

March-1947 River Severn (1947) — about 16.1 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

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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.