Does RG26 flood?

Yes — parts of the RG26 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 25 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RG26 postcode district covers Bramley, Tadley & Pamber, Sherborne St John & Rooksdown, close to Chineham, Sherfield On Loddon, Old Basing, and surrounding villages in parts of Hampshire and Wokingham.

25 postcodes in the RG26 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 4 medium, 14 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 RG26 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near RG26

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

Chineham on the Petty's Brook — 4.1 km away, highest on record 1.27m
Longbridge Mill on the River Loddon — 4.7 km away, highest on record 0.88m
Pyotts Bridge on the River Loddon — 6.3 km away, highest on record 1.45m
Beech Hill on the Foudry Brook — 8.5 km away, highest on record 2.24m

142 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006, most recently 18 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

October 1993 flooding — about 4.6 km from the centre
September 1992 flooding — about 2.3 km from the centre
March 1947 flooding — about 4.9 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

RG25 RG27 RG24 RG28 RG29 RG22 RG30 RG21

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.