Does RH7 flood?

Yes — parts of the RH7 district carry real flood risk: 19 of its 31 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RH7 postcode district covers Godstone, Dormansland & Felbridge, close to Lingfield, Edenbridge, Burstow, and surrounding villages in parts of Surrey and West Sussex.

31 postcodes in the RH7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 19 high, 4 medium, 8 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 RH7 postcodes are at risk?

RH7 6BL up to High RH7 6BZ up to High RH7 6DA up to High RH7 6DF up to High RH7 6DG up to High RH7 6HJ up to High RH7 6HL up to High RH7 6LE up to High RH7 6LG up to High RH7 6LJ up to High RH7 6LN up to High RH7 6LQ up to High RH7 6LS up to High RH7 6LT up to High RH7 6LW up to High RH7 6NE up to High RH7 6PH up to High RH7 6PL up to High RH7 6PN up to High RH7 6BJ up to Medium RH7 6DD up to Medium RH7 6EJ up to Medium RH7 6GT up to Medium RH7 6EG up to Low RH7 6GF up to Low RH7 6GU up to Low RH7 6JX up to Low RH7 6LH up to Low RH7 6LL up to Low RH7 6PG up to Low RH7 6PQ up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RH7

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

Lingfield Eden Brook on the Eden Tributary Medway — 1.6 km away, highest on record 2.90m
Edenbridge on the Eden Tributary Medway — 6.4 km away, highest on record 3.59m
Peeks Brook Lane on the Burstow Stream — 8.1 km away, highest on record 2.90m
Bonehurst Bridge on the Burstow Stream — 9.7 km away, highest on record 4.47m

169 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (43 at warning level or above), most recently 5 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 29.4 km from the centre
07303C500_SEPT1968_Eden Brook_Lingfield (1968) — about 2.5 km from the centre
07303C510_SEPT1968_Ray Brook_Lingfield (1968) — about 1.5 km from the centre
07303C500_SEPT1968_Eden_upstreamofEdenbridge (1968) — about 2.8 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

RH6 RH8 RH5 RH9 RH10 RH4 RH11 RH3

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.