Environment Agency monitoring directory
Horbury at Strands Cottage
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- River Calder
- Directory county
- Wakefield
- EA operational area
- Wakefield
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Nearby designated monitoring areas
Stanley including Ferry Lane, Welbeck Lane, Lake Yard, Bottom Boat Road and Foxholes Lane
River Calder · designated warning area
Horbury Junction including Dudfleet Mill, the sewage works, Broad Cut, the Industrial Estate and Calder Park incorporating Denby Dale Road and Thomas Maddison Lane
River Calder · designated warning area
Wakefield including Belle Isle, Fall Ings and Belle Vue
River Calder · designated warning area
Whitwood Mere including Methley Road, Ragan Close, Phillips Street, Pottery Street, Moss Street, Cross Street, Cinder Lane, Wood Street and Savile Road
River Calder · designated warning area
Wakefield including Thornes, Thornes Industrial Estate, Greens Industrial Estate and Calder Vale Road
River Calder · designated warning area
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
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