Does RH19 flood?

Yes — parts of the RH19 district carry real flood risk: 4 of its 10 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RH19 postcode district covers Dormansland & Felbridge, East Grinstead Herontye, Ashurst Wood & East Grinstead South, East Grinstead Town, close to Lingfield, Forest Row, Burstow, and surrounding villages in parts of West Sussex and Surrey.

10 postcodes in the RH19 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 4 high, 2 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 RH19 postcodes are at risk?

RH19 2LD up to High RH19 2QQ up to High RH19 3YN up to High RH19 4LD up to High RH19 4AT up to Medium RH19 4AU up to Medium RH19 2PQ up to Low RH19 4AS up to Low RH19 4HL up to Low RH19 4LG up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RH19

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

Lingfield Eden Brook on the Eden Tributary Medway — 5.5 km away, highest on record 2.90m
Forest Row on the River Medway — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.26m
Peeks Brook Lane on the Burstow Stream — 9.1 km away, highest on record 2.90m
Maidenbower on the Gatwick Stream — 9.5 km away, highest on record 2.99m

241 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (20 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult (2013) — about 30 km from the centre
07303C200_SEPT1968_Medway_Forest Row_Groombridge (1968) — about 9.9 km from the centre
07303C500_SEPT1968_Eden Brook_Lingfield (1968) — about 4.2 km from the centre
07303C200_NOV1960_Medway_Forest Row_Groombridge (1960) — about 9.8 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

RH18 RH20 RH17 RH16 RH15 RH14 RH13 RH12

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.