Does GL55 flood?

Yes — parts of the GL55 district carry real flood risk: 20 of its 30 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The GL55 postcode district covers Campden & Vale, Blockley, close to Moreton in Marsh, Aldington, Shipston-On-Stour, and surrounding villages in parts of Worcestershire and Warwickshire.

30 postcodes in the GL55 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 20 high, 8 medium, 2 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 GL55 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near GL55

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

Broadway Flood Storage Area on the Badsey Brook — 6.4 km away, highest on record 3.48m
Childswickham on the Badsey Brook — 7.2 km away, highest on record 0.88m
Moreton on the River Evenlode — 9.8 km away, highest on record 1.46m
Offenham on the Badsey Brook — 9.8 km away, highest on record 3.65m

177 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (7 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Chipping_Campden_07_2007 (2007) — about 1.1 km from the centre
M_LS_Jan_1985 (1985) — about 13.9 km from the centre
Weston-sub-edge (1968) — about 2.7 km from the centre
Chipping Campden (1968) — about 1 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

GL54 GL56 GL53 GL52 GL51 GL50 GL20 GL19

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.