Environment Agency052WAFHARROLDFormer flood area
Low lying roads between Harrold and Oakley in Bedfordshire: flood history since 2019
The Environment Agency has issued 19 flood alerts for Low lying roads between Harrold and Oakley in Bedfordshire since 16 Nov 2019, most often in January; the busiest year was 2023 (7).
Flood alerts only
The flood area
- Flood area
- Low lying roads between Harrold and Oakley in Bedfordshire
- Code
- 052WAFHARROLD
- Environment Agency area
- none today (the history file lists it under East Anglia - Cambridgeshire and Bedfordshire)
- First in the history
- 16 Nov 2019
- Latest in the history file
- 9 May 2023
- Current status
- no longer an Environment Agency flood area (not in its register of 1 Oct 2026)
Flood alert, flood warning, severe flood warning: what each means
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
How many alerts and warnings a year?
Flood alerts, flood warnings and severe flood warnings (updates not counted), by year. 2026 runs to the end of June.
The numbers
| Year | Alerts | Warnings | Severe |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | 0 | 0 |
| 2022 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 2021 | 4 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
When in the year?
All alerts and warnings since 2019 by month.
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Before July 2026: the latest in the history file
| Date | Level |
|---|---|
| 9 May 2023 | Flood alert |
| 31 Mar 2023 | Flood alert |
| 25 Mar 2023 | Flood alert |
| 10 Mar 2023 | Flood alert |
| 11 Jan 2023 | Flood alert |
| 9 Jan 2023 | Flood alert |
| 1 Jan 2023 | Flood alert |
| 21 Feb 2022 | Flood alert |
| 26 Dec 2021 | Flood alert |
| 28 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 20 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
| 14 Jan 2021 | Flood alert |
Source: Environment Agency, Historic Flood Warnings (England); Environment Agency flood-monitoring API. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.