Does RG25 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG25 district carry real flood risk: 5 of its 11 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG25 postcode district covers Oakley & The Candovers, close to Whitchurch, Kingsclere, Hurstbourne Priors, and surrounding villages in Hampshire.

11 postcodes in the RG25 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 5 high, 1 medium, 5 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 RG25 postcodes are at risk?

RG25 2EH up to High RG25 2EJ up to High RG25 2EN up to High RG25 3DT up to High RG25 3JA up to High RG25 3JU up to Medium RG25 2JR up to Low RG25 3DG up to Low RG25 3HD up to Low RG25 3HE up to Low RG25 3JE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RG25

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

Whitchurch Side on the River Test — 8.5 km away, highest on record 0.43m
Whitchurch Main on the River Test — 8.5 km away, highest on record 0.41m
Hurstbourne Priors on the Bourne Rivulet — 10.9 km away, highest on record 0.88m
St Mary Bourne on the Bourne Rivulet — 12.8 km away, highest on record 78.89m

112 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (6 at warning level or above), most recently 25 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

River Test Aerial Photography (2014) — about 13.3 km from the centre
Winter 2000/01gw_River Test_Deane (2000) — about 2 km from the centre
Winter1995_Upper Test_Deane(1) (1995) — about 2 km from the centre
Winter1995_Upper Test_Deane(2) (1995) — about 1.7 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

RG24 RG26 RG27 RG22 RG28 RG21 RG29 RG20

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.