Does SN7 flood?

Yes — parts of the SN7 district carry real flood risk: 18 of its 28 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SN7 postcode district covers Watchfield & Shrivenham, Stanford, Thames, Faringdon, close to Eaton Hastings, Radcot, Carswell Marsh, and surrounding villages in parts of Oxfordshire and Swindon.

28 postcodes in the SN7 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 18 high, 5 medium, 5 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 SN7 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near SN7

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

Stanford Vale on the River Ock — 6.2 km away, highest on record 1.98m
Clanfield on the Clanfield Brook — 6.3 km away, highest on record 2.15m
Bampton on the Shill Brook — 7.3 km away, highest on record 2.17m
Charney Bassett on the River Ock — 9.1 km away, highest on record 2.72m

343 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (21 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):

Grafton and Radcot CP_Fluvial Water (2008) — about 4.2 km from the centre
August 1977 flooding — about 3.2 km from the centre
March 1947 flooding — about 6.8 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

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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.