Does SN26 flood?

Only lower-likelihood flood risk is recorded in SN26: none of its 1 listed postcodes goes beyond the Low band. The SN26 postcode district covers Blunsdon and Highworth, close to Cricklade, Latton, Marston Meysey, and surrounding villages in parts of Gloucestershire and Wiltshire.

1 postcode in the SN26 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 very 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 SN26 postcodes are at risk?

SN26 8DE up to Very low

Rivers and flooding history near SN26

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

Water Eaton on the River Ray — 2.7 km away, highest on record 2.68m
Purton Stoke on the River Key — 5.4 km away, highest on record 2.34m
Hannington Bridge on the River Thames — 5.5 km away, highest on record 4.49m
Rodbourne on the River Ray — 5.9 km away, highest on record 2.46m

397 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (22 at warning level or above), most recently 29 August 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

October 1993 flooding — about 3.6 km from the centre
September 1992 flooding — about 3.9 km from the centre
August 1977 flooding — about 2.8 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

SN25 SN16 SN15 SN14 SN13 SN12 SN11 SN10

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.