Does HP10 flood?

Yes — parts of the HP10 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HP10 postcode district covers Penn, Tylers Green & Loudwater, Flackwell Heath & The Wooburns, close to Marlow, Bourne End, Cookham, and surrounding villages in parts of Buckinghamshire and Windsor and Maidenhead.

23 postcodes in the HP10 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high, 22 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 HP10 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near HP10

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

Ray Farm on the Groundwater Level — 3.6 km away, highest on record 56.38m
Bourne End on the River Wye — 3.8 km away, highest on record 0.47m
Taplow on the Jubilee River — 8.3 km away, highest on record 1.92m
Raymill Road on the Maidenhead Ditch — 8.5 km away, highest on record 1.47m

83 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (24 at warning level or above), most recently 27 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 14.5 km from the centre
06JanuaryNewYear2003 (2002) — about 3.2 km from the centre
December 2000 flooding — about 3.7 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

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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.