Does OX20 flood?

Yes — parts of the OX20 district carry real flood risk: 3 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The OX20 postcode district covers Woodstock and Bladon, Stonesfield and Tackley, close to Wootton, Shipton-On-Cherwell, Thrupp, and surrounding villages in Oxfordshire.

10 postcodes in the OX20 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 3 high, 3 medium, 4 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 OX20 postcodes are at risk?

OX20 1AL up to High OX20 1HZ up to High OX20 1TL up to High OX20 1AU up to Medium OX20 1EP up to Medium OX20 1EW up to Medium OX20 1LE up to Low OX20 1QA up to Low OX20 1RW up to Low OX20 1XH up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near OX20

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

Thrupp on the River Cherwell — 4.7 km away, highest on record 3.40m
Heyford Bridge on the River Cherwell — 8 km away, highest on record 2.57m
Islip on the River Ray — 9.3 km away, highest on record 9.33m
Farmoor on the River Thames — 11.1 km away, highest on record 2.01m

115 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (36 at warning level or above), most recently 6 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

06AprilEaster1998 (1998) — about 3.3 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

OX18 OX17 OX16 OX15 OX25 OX14 OX26 OX13

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.