Does HP23 flood?

Yes — parts of the HP23 district carry real flood risk: 10 of its 16 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HP23 postcode district covers Tring West and Rural, Tring Central, Ivinghoe, Aston Clinton & Weston Turville, close to Weston Turville, Rowsham, Aylesbury, and surrounding villages in parts of Buckinghamshire and Central Bedfordshire.

16 postcodes in the HP23 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 10 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 HP23 postcodes are at risk?

HP23 4BF up to High HP23 4PJ up to High HP23 4QD up to High HP23 4QL up to High HP23 4QQ up to High HP23 4QS up to High HP23 4QT up to High HP23 4QZ up to High HP23 4RL up to High HP23 5HB up to High HP23 4FA up to Medium HP23 4QG up to Medium HP23 5HG up to Medium HP23 4PL up to Low HP23 4QR up to Low HP23 5EQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near HP23

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

Weston Turville on the Wendover Springs — 6.4 km away, highest on record 0.83m
Rowsham Bridge on the River Thame — 6.6 km away, highest on record 2.03m
Aylesbury on the Bear Brook — 7.9 km away, highest on record 2.00m
Leighton Buzzard on the River Ouzel — 9.5 km away, highest on record 1.70m

56 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (2 at warning level or above), most recently 15 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Winter 2013/2014 (2013) — about 32.9 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

HP22 HP21 HP20 HP19 HP27 HP18 HP17 HP16

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.