Does CR3 flood?

Yes — parts of the CR3 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 20 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The CR3 postcode district covers Whyteleafe, Valley, close to Woldingham, Beddington, Carshalton, and surrounding villages in parts of Greater London and Surrey.

20 postcodes in the CR3 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 17 medium. A postcode not listed here has no properties in any recorded risk band (which is good news, but never proof it cannot flood).

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Which CR3 postcodes are at risk?

CR3 0BA up to High CR3 0BL up to High CR3 0YB up to High CR3 0AA up to Medium CR3 0AT up to Medium CR3 0BB up to Medium CR3 0BF up to Medium CR3 0BT up to Medium CR3 0EA up to Medium CR3 0EB up to Medium CR3 0ED up to Medium CR3 0EG up to Medium CR3 0ET up to Medium CR3 0EW up to Medium CR3 0GR up to Medium CR3 0HJ up to Medium CR3 0XB up to Medium CR3 0XG up to Medium CR3 0YN up to Medium CR3 0YW up to Medium

Rivers and flooding history near CR3

The rivers that matter here, each monitored live on FloodRadar:

Woldingham Road on the Groundwater Level — 1.8 km away, highest on record 111.00m
Waddon Ponds on the River Wandle — 7.6 km away, highest on record 0.43m
Beddington Park on the River Wandle — 8.4 km away, highest on record 1.83m
Chipstead on the Groundwater Level — 8.7 km away, highest on record 106.78m

2 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 7 February 2014. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

Recorded flood extents near the district (Environment Agency record):

07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult (2013) — about 35.7 km from the centre

Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

CR2 CR4 CR0 CR7 CR8 CR9

Band = the worst likelihood band of any property in that postcode (EA Risk of Flooding from Rivers & Sea, defence-adjusted, area-level). Check any postcode in detail — or get the full £19 property report — at the property flood-risk report. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved. Some features of this map are based on digital spatial data from the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, © NERC (CEH). © Crown Copyright and Database Rights 2025 OS AC0000807064. This product is produced in part from PAF® and Multiple Residence Data, the copyright in which is owned by Royal Mail Group Limited and/or Royal Mail Group plc. All rights reserved. Licence number AC0000807064.