Does Golborne flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Golborne

Ordnance Survey places 33 postcodes in Golborne in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset (Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea). Each postcode is counted once, under the worst band any of its properties reaches; together they hold 269 properties in the EA dataset's likelihood bands.

This dataset covers flooding from rivers and the sea only — one of five flood sources. Surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately, so a postcode missing from it is not proof that a place cannot flood. The band describes the land around properties (allowing for defences), not any single address and not today's conditions.

Rivers and live river levels near Golborne

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Golborne watch Millingford Brook, Westleigh Brook, Hey Brook, Atherton Lake Brook, Borsdane Brook, Sankey Brook, Black Brook, Glaze Brook.

• Lincoln Drive
  Millingford Brook · 2.9 km away 0.51 m
  normal range · falling · 33 min ago
• Ivy Street, Ashton-In-Makerfield
  Millingford Brook · 3.8 km away 0.35 m
  normal range · falling · 33 min ago
• Sportsman Street, Leigh
  Westleigh Brook · 4.0 km away 0.38 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Platt Bridge, Templeton Road
  Hey Brook · 4.4 km away 0.68 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Lilford Park, Leigh
  Atherton Lake Brook · 5.8 km away 0.68 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• First Avenue
  Borsdane Brook · 6.2 km away 0.37 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Romford Street, Hindley
  Borsdane Brook · 6.3 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Howe Bridge
  Atherton Lake Brook · 6.4 km away 0.14 m
  normal range · 33 min ago
• Causey Bridge
  Sankey Brook · 6.4 km away 1.02 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Haydock West End Road
  Black Brook · 8.0 km away 0.22 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Higham Avenue
  Sankey Brook · 8.0 km away 1.29 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Little Woolden Hall
  Glaze Brook · 8.2 km away 1.35 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Golborne's at-risk postcodes. Tidal and structure gauges are shown as readings only — the tide and sluice gates move them, not floods. A gauge with no recent reading shows no level.

Flood warning areas near Golborne

23 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Golborne. The EA has issued 160 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• Properties around Wigan Road and Princess Road between the Library and Mill Street. Also properties on Old Road, King George Close, Gerrard Street, Monmouth Crescent, on and adjacent to Lincoln Drive and near Jack Brook on Bowland Avenue and Jubilee Park
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 3.4 km
• Areas at risk include properties in and around the Kirbati Way, Clifton Street, Wigan Road and Twist Lane areas. Additional properties are around the Woodley Grove, Suffolk Grove, Stout Street and Common Lane areas
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2012 4.0 km
• Properties at Platt Bridge on and around Platt Lane including Templeton Road, Walthew Lane, Aspinall Street and Gas Street. Also, properties on Keats Way at Abram
  no warning on record since 2006 4.5 km
• Areas at risk include land and property adjacent to the watercourse at Parsonage bridge, and property adjacent to the watercourse near Westleigh Park including some properties on Telford Crescent
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2012 5.2 km
• Areas at risk include properties in Inglebrook Court and on Old Hall Mill Lane. Also at risk are properties on Windermere Rd, Grasmere St, Prescott St and surrounding Chadwick St. Properties around Reeves St, Platt St and between Leigh Rd and Charles St
  no warning on record since 2006 5.4 km
• The Sankey catchment includes Black, Barkers, Windle and Whittle Brooks and their tributaries. Other locations which may be affected are around Rainford, Billinge, Prescot, Newton-le-Willows, Haydock, Ashton-in-Makerfield and Golbourne
  47 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2026 5.5 km
• The Glaze catchment includes Moss, Hey, Bedford and Borsdane Brooks and their tributaries. Other locations which may be affected are Leigh, Tyldsley, Hindley, Westhoughton, Atherton, Worsley, Walkdon and East Wigan
  38 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 5.7 km
• Areas at risk include properties on and around The Avenue to Peregrine Drive and adjacent roads. This includes properties on and around Riversmeade, Elmridge, Platt Fold Road, Sevenoaks, Greenways, South Court, Linnet Drive, Redpol Avenue
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 6.1 km
• Areas at risk include land adjacent to Borsdane Brook between Rayner Park and Rockingham Drive, Including Platt Lane, Aughton Street, Whitebury Ave and Blackberry Drive. Also at risk, Property next to Hockery Brook Between Wigan Road and Blackberry Drive
  8 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 6.1 km
• Areas at risk include Wash Lane, Rosedale Drive, parts of Kenwood Avenue, The Recreation Ground, Balmoral Drive, Tower Grove, Stirling Close, Crown Grove and Royal Drive, Windsor Road and Regina Crescent
  no warning on record since 2006 6.7 km
• Areas at risk include properties around Wigan Road and Liscard Street and those surrounding Gadbury Avenue, Gadbury Fold. Also at risk are properties on Albion Close, along Leigh Road and on Lovers Lane
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jun 2023 6.9 km
• Areas at risk include commercial and retail property off Europa Boulevard at Gemini Industrial Park. Additional properties at risk include parts of Fairbourne close.
  13 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2025 7.0 km

Recorded floods near Golborne

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Golborne, most recent first. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See them on the map →

• 1 Jan 2025 — Warrington Croft - NYE/NYD 25 Drainage
• 1 Jan 2025 — Warrington Orford - NYE/NYD 25 Drainage
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Leigh - NYE/NYD 25 Main river
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Ashton in Makerfield - NYE/NYD 25 Main river
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Platts Bridge - NYE/NYD 2025 Main river
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Bickershaw - NYE/NYD Drainage
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Bickershaw - NYE/NYD 25 Drainage
• 31 Dec 2024 — Wigan Abram - NYE/NYD 25 Main river
• 16 Oct 2024 — 158 & 160 Bickershaw Lane, WN2 5PR Drainage
• 30 Sep 2024 — 78, 80, 82 Lincoln Drive WN4 9HX Drainage
• 30 Sep 2024 — 61 & 59 Lincoln Drive WN4 9HX Drainage
• 30 Sep 2024 — 158 & 160 Bickershaw Lane WN2 5PR Ordinary watercourse

…and 19 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Golborne

Golborne gets about 908 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 95 mm; driest April, 56 mm). That is 22% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.9 km away), recorded 5.4 mm in the last 24 hours and 59.8 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Golborne

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Golborne that appears in the EA's rivers-and-sea dataset, worst band first. Each links to its own flood-risk page.

High likelihood (21)

Medium likelihood (3)

Low likelihood (9)

Postcode districts

Sources

FloodRadar summarises public flood data. It is not a flood-risk survey of any property, and it does not replace official GOV.UK flood warnings or the GOV.UK long-term flood risk service.