Does GU35 flood?

Yes — parts of the GU35 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The GU35 postcode district covers Binsted, Bentley & Selborne, Headley, Lindford, Whitehill Chase, close to Standford, Alton, Tilford, and surrounding villages in parts of Hampshire and Surrey.

25 postcodes in the GU35 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 3 medium, 3 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 GU35 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near GU35

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

Passfield Mill on the River Wey — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.71m
Kings Pond on the River Wey — 8 km away, highest on record 0.56m
Alton High Street on the River Wey — 8.6 km away, highest on record 0.44m
Tilford on the River Wey — 9.7 km away, highest on record 2.09m

142 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (4 at warning level or above), most recently 21 April 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

September 1968 flooding — about 3.2 km from the centre
March 1947 flooding — about 1.2 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

GU34 GU33 GU32 GU31 GU30 GU29 GU28 GU27

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.