Does HR8 flood?

Yes — parts of the HR8 district carry real flood risk: 15 of its 29 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The HR8 postcode district covers Hope End, Hartpury & Redmarley, Three Crosses, Ledbury West, close to Bosbury, Bromsberrow, Yarkhill, and surrounding villages in parts of Herefordshire and Gloucestershire.

29 postcodes in the HR8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 15 high, 5 medium, 9 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 HR8 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near HR8

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

Bosbury on the River Leadon — 4.4 km away, highest on record 1.96m
Bromsberrow on the Glynch Brook — 7.8 km away, highest on record 2.41m
Yarkhill on the River Frome (Wye) — 8.5 km away, highest on record 2.65m
Bishops Frome on the River Frome (Wye) — 10.2 km away, highest on record 2.08m

324 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (11 at warning level or above), most recently 15 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

No recorded flood extent is mapped near this district's centre. No recorded outline near the district means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record.

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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.