Does IP29 flood?

Yes — parts of the IP29 district carry real flood risk: 12 of its 23 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The IP29 postcode district covers Chadacre, Chedburgh & Chevington, Whepstead & Wickhambrook, Barrow, close to Sicklesmere, Stanstead, Pentlow, and surrounding villages in Suffolk.

23 postcodes in the IP29 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 12 high, 3 medium, 8 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 IP29 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near IP29

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

Sicklesmere on the River Lark — 7.6 km away, highest on record 1.79m
Glemsford on the River Glem — 8.5 km away, highest on record 1.88m
GLEMSFORD FGS DUAL COMMS — 8.6 km away
Westmill on the River Stour — 9.1 km away, highest on record 2.04m

63 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 27 January 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

2013 Flood Outline (2013) — about 46.9 km from the centre
2009 Flood Outline (2009) — about 35 km from the centre
1968 September Flood Outline (1968) — about 12.2 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

IP28 IP30 IP27 IP31 IP26 IP32 IP25 IP33

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.