Does RH8 flood?

Yes — parts of the RH8 district carry real flood risk: 16 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The RH8 postcode district covers Oxted North, Limpsfield, Oxted South, Tatsfield & Titsey, close to Westerham, Woldingham, Brasted, and surrounding villages in parts of Kent and Surrey.

22 postcodes in the RH8 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 16 high, 4 medium, 2 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 RH8 postcodes are at risk?

RH8 0AJ up to High RH8 0AS up to High RH8 0BT up to High RH8 0DE up to High RH8 0PG up to High RH8 0RQ up to High RH8 0SB up to High RH8 9HN up to High RH8 9HW up to High RH8 9LR up to High RH8 9LT up to High RH8 9LY up to High RH8 9NW up to High RH8 9PB up to High RH8 9PE up to High RH8 9PL up to High RH8 0AD up to Medium RH8 0BD up to Medium RH8 9LN up to Medium RH8 9LP up to Medium RH8 9AB up to Low RH8 9AE up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near RH8

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

Westerham on the River Darent — 5 km away, highest on record 0.54m
Woldingham Road on the Groundwater Level — 6.3 km away, highest on record 111.00m
Park Farm on the River Darent — 7.3 km away, highest on record 1.06m
Edenbridge on the Eden Tributary Medway — 8.1 km away, highest on record 3.59m

123 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (17 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 28.8 km from the centre
07303C500_SEPT1968_Eden_Crowhurst (1968) — about 2 km from the centre
07303C500_NOV1960_Eden_Crowhurst (1960) — about 0.1 km from the centre
07303C500_NOV1960_Eden_Edenbridge (1960) — about 3.8 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

RH7 RH9 RH10 RH6 RH11 RH5 RH12 RH4

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.