Does EC3R flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in EC3R: none of its 2 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The EC3R postcode district covers Billingsgate, close to Tower Pier, Westminster, Stoke Newington, and surrounding villages in Greater London.

2 postcodes in the EC3R district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 2 very low. 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 EC3R postcodes are at risk?

EC3R 6AN up to Very low EC3R 6EE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near EC3R

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

Lea Bridge on the River Lee — 6.9 km away, highest on record 6.52m
Catford Hill on the River Ravensbourne — 8.4 km away, highest on record 1.20m
Manor House Gardens on the River Quaggy — 8.4 km away, highest on record 1.08m
Winsford Road on the River Pool — 8.9 km away, highest on record 0.89m

108 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 3 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 1.5 km from the centre
TTD_FEO_1928 (1928) — about 0.6 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

EC3N EC4R EC4V EC4Y

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.