Does NP16 flood?

Yes — parts of the NP16 district carry real flood risk: 13 of its 18 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The NP16 postcode district covers Tidenham, St. Briavels, St Arvans, close to Oldbury, Lydney, Parkend, and surrounding villages in parts of South Gloucestershire and Gloucestershire.

18 postcodes in the NP16 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 13 high, 2 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 NP16 postcodes are at risk?

NP16 6TB up to High NP16 7HH up to High NP16 7HQ up to High NP16 7HR up to High NP16 7JD up to High NP16 7LB up to High NP16 7LD up to High NP16 7LZ up to High NP16 7NG up to High NP16 7NQ up to High NP16 7PE up to High NP16 7RH up to High NP16 7YG up to High NP16 7FE up to Medium NP16 7LR up to Medium NP16 6SE up to Low NP16 7LH up to Low NP16 7NN up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near NP16

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

Tintern_Abbey_Mill on the River Wye — 4.1 km away
Lydney on the River Lyd — 11.3 km away, highest on record 1.60m
Parkend on the River Lyd — 13.2 km away, highest on record 1.35m
Berkeley on the Little Avon River — 14 km away, highest on record 2.30m

884 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (273 at warning level or above), most recently 30 September 2026. Counted from the warning records of the Environment Agency and Natural Resources Wales; the Environment Agency's record covers England only. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Tidal Severn (1981) — about 14 km from the centre
Chepstow December 1981 01 (1981) — about 2.2 km from the centre
Chepstow December 1981 03 (1981) — about 3.6 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.