Does WS14 flood?

Yes — parts of the WS14 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The WS14 postcode district covers Shenstone, Bourne Vale, Whittington & Streethay, close to Hopwas, Elford, Lady Bridge, and surrounding villages in parts of Staffordshire and West Midlands.

20 postcodes in the WS14 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 2 medium, 6 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 WS14 postcodes are at risk?

WS14 0AT up to High WS14 0DP up to High WS14 0DU up to High WS14 0EG up to High WS14 0HP up to High WS14 0JT up to High WS14 0PY up to High WS14 9JG up to High WS14 9JJ up to High WS14 9JQ up to High WS14 9LQ up to High WS14 9QN up to High WS14 0DJ up to Medium WS14 0SB up to Medium WS14 0DE up to Low WS14 0DX up to Low WS14 0PU up to Low WS14 0PW up to Low WS14 0PZ up to Low WS14 9JW up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near WS14

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

Hints on the Bourne Brook — 4.6 km away, highest on record 2.28m
Hopwas on the River Tame — 5.6 km away, highest on record 3.21m
Elford on the River Tame — 8.1 km away
Tamworth on the River Tame — 8.2 km away, highest on record 2.73m

216 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (37 at warning level or above), most recently 28 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

WS13 WS15 WS12 WS11 WS10 WS9 WS7 WS6

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.