Does Leyland flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 95 postcodes in Leyland 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 1,146 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 Leyland

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Leyland watch River Lostock, River Yarrow, River Darwen, River Ribble, Syd Brook, Black Brook.

• Bamber Bridge
  River Lostock · 4.0 km away 0.30 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Croston Dam
  River Yarrow · 4.4 km away 0.90 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Pincock Brow
  River Yarrow · 4.7 km away 0.28 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 33 min ago
• Littlewood Bridge
  River Lostock · 4.7 km away 1.06 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Croston
  River Yarrow · 5.7 km away 0.47 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Castle Bridge Croston Tidal
  River Yarrow · 6.2 km away 1.24 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 33 min ago
• Blue Bridge
  River Darwen · 6.2 km away 0.55 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Penwortham Tidal
  River Ribble · 6.2 km away 1.89 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 33 min ago
• Eccleston Heskin Bridge
  Syd Brook · 6.3 km away 0.67 m
  normal range · rising · 33 min ago
• Walton-Le-Dale Tidal
  River Ribble · 6.6 km away 0.68 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 33 min ago
• Chorley Haworth Road
  Black Brook · 7.5 km away 0.25 m
  normal range · steady · 33 min ago
• Samlesbury
  River Ribble · 9.7 km away 1.65 m
  normal range · falling · 33 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Leyland'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 Leyland

26 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Leyland. The EA has issued 300 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 24 Oct 2026.

• River Lostock, Shaw Brook and Bannister Brook, including the Farington, Earnshaw Bridge, Seven Stars, Turpin Green and Broadfield areas
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 0.9 km
• Rivers Yarrow and Lostock and other watercourses from Whittle-Le-Woods and Chorley to Croston including Leyland, Coppull, Eccleston, Lostock Hall and Bamber Bridge
  74 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Oct 2026 2.0 km
• Properties in Lower Penwortham off Leyland Road, Talbot Road, Riverside Road and Stricklands Lane; premises on Leyland Road and Factory Lane Industrial Estates; mobile homes on Penwortham Residential Park; and properties near Oaks Wood in Valley Road
  1 warning or alert since 2006, latest Jan 2014 5.6 km
• Properties in Croston on Grape Lane, Town Road, and Yarrow Close next to the River Yarrow
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2015 6.0 km
• Properties in Croston in Back Drinkhouse Lane and Drinkhouse Lane, the junction of Westhead Road and Riverside Crescent, Lonsdale Drive, Langdale Avenue, Coniston Way and Croston sewage works
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2015 6.0 km
• Properties in Penwortham on Leyland Road close to the River Ribble, including Penwortham Methodist Church
  7 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 6.1 km
• Includes Ribble Side Farm, Watery Lane, Factory Lane and Ashworth Grove, Walton Green, Beechwood Avenue, Heaton Close, and Chorley Road and Drakes Hollow
  no warning on record since 2006 6.2 km
• Properties in Broadgate in South End, Riverside, and Connaught Road, including The Continental pub and Preston Sports Club
  no warning on record since 2006 6.2 km
• Syd Brook at Eccleston, Langton Brow, Langton Close, Grove Park Industrial Estate and Tincklers Cottages
  no warning on record since 2006 6.3 km
• Properties in Croston in Drinkhouse Road, Drinkhouse Lane next to the railway, Westfields, Riverside Crescent, Yarrow Close, Carvers Bridge, Turflands, The Hillocks, and Home Farm Mews
  4 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2015 6.3 km
• Properties on Higher Walton Road backing onto the River Darwen, businesses and properties close to Cann Bridge in Darwen Street, and businesses based in Higher Walton Mills
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Sep 2025 6.4 km
• Area on the North Bank of the River Ribble between the Old Tram Bridge and the Railway Bridge comprising Avenham Park and Miller Park
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2024 6.4 km

Recorded floods near Leyland

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

• 31 Dec 2024 — 31st December 2024 Drainage
• 23 Jul 2023 — Church Street Drainage
• 23 Jul 2023 — Grape Lane Drainage
• 6 Oct 2020 — Dawson Lane Drainage
• 6 Oct 2020 — Central Avenue
• 6 Oct 2020 — Park Road Drainage
• 6 Oct 2020 — Southport Road Main river
• 28 Sep 2019 — Carvers Brow Drainage
• 28 Sep 2019 — Grape Lane
• 28 Sep 2019 — Out Lane Drainage
• 28 Sep 2019 — Croston Drainage
• 22 Nov 2017 — Turflands

…and 81 earlier recorded floods on the map.

Rainfall near Leyland

Leyland gets about 965 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month December, 132 mm; driest April, 51 mm). That is 17% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.0 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (5.6 km away), recorded 5.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 60.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 33 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Leyland

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

High likelihood (47)

Medium likelihood (20)

Low likelihood (26)

Very low likelihood (2)

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.