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Conditions are worth watching: heavy rain has fallen nearby (15.1 mm in the last 24 hours at Rainfall station). Keep an eye on updates if heavy rain continues.
Updated 2026-10-09 13:32:55 UTC · Official GOV.UK warnings · Flood preparation & help guide
Haydock is a village within the Metropolitan Borough of St Helens, in Merseyside, England. At the 2011 Census, it had a population of 11,416 Haydock's historic area covers the Haydock electoral ward and a section of the Blackbrook ward.
Towns and villages near Haydock with a page of their own: the homes in a flood risk area there, the nearest river gauges, and recorded floods.
St Helens · Golborne · Ince-in-Makerfield · Widnes
Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The nearest watercourse on the river map is Black Brook, about 10 m from the middle of Haydock's gauges.
A gauge downstream shows water that has already passed this point; one upstream sees it first. Distances along the river are from the point on Black Brook nearest the middle of Haydock's gauges. From Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers), which leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts, so a nearer one may exist. This describes where water goes on the map; it says nothing about flooding at any address. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Haydock is monitored by 1 Environment Agency river level station on the Black Brook, in Liverpool City Region. Water levels are updated every 15 minutes, providing real-time flood monitoring for the area.
The Black Brook is monitored by 1 station (Haydock West End Road). Each station records water levels continuously, with data synced to FloodRadar every 5 minutes.
There are 8 Environment Agency flood warning areas within 10km of Haydock. When the EA issues a flood warning for any of these areas, it will appear on this page. These include: Properties on Blackbrook Road and West End Road; Areas at risk include land and properties at St Cuthberts school, Berrys Lane, Watery Lane, Portland Way and The Moss Nook; Areas at risk include land and property at Berrington Road Cottage, between Grey House Farm and the river, Windle Park Wood, and some properties on Woodside and Birch Tree Avenues; Land and property adjacent to Windle Brook between the allotments and Dilloway Street. This includes Percival way, Ruskin Drive, Coleridge Way, Rivington Road and some properties on Kiln Lane.
There are 34 storm overflows within 5km of Haydock. 2 are currently discharging. Enable "Sewage" on the map above to see their locations.
6 of them, nearest first, with their own page of live status and past discharges:
If flooding is forecast in Haydock, call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 for the latest information. Move valuables upstairs, turn off gas and electricity if safe to do so, and avoid walking or driving through flood water. Sign up for flood warnings on any station page above to receive email alerts when water levels rise. For emergency numbers, a preparation checklist and insurance guidance, see our flood help & preparation guide.
Haydock gets about 938 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 100 mm; driest April, 57 mm). That is 19% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. See the rain gauges →
A thirty-year average for the area, not a forecast and not a flood risk on its own. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.3 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of the town centre — most recent first. These are records of mapped extents, not a full list of floods. See them on the map →
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
Current verdict: Watch. Conditions are worth watching: heavy rain has fallen nearby (15.1 mm in the last 24 hours at Rainfall station). Keep an eye on updates if heavy rain continues.
Haydock has river level monitoring on Black Brook — 1 monitoring station in total.
Use the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service (check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk) or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 (24 hours). You can also set up free FloodRadar email or browser alerts from any station page above.
Follow official advice: move valuables and vehicles to safety, never walk or drive through flood water, turn off gas and electricity if safe, and check on vulnerable neighbours. See our flood preparation guide at floodradar.co.uk/flood-help.
Yes — the Environment Agency's Recorded Flood Outlines dataset shows 9 recorded flood extents around the town centre since 1703, most recently in 2015. That is a count of mapped extents, not of separate floods. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See the flood history link below.
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