Does SO52 flood?

Yes — parts of the SO52 district carry real flood risk: 1 of its 1 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The SO52 postcode district covers Chilworth, Nursling & Rownhams, North Baddesley, close to Romsey, Longbridge, Nursling, and surrounding villages in parts of Hampshire and England.

1 postcode in the SO52 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 1 high. 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 SO52 postcodes are at risk?

SO52 9LP up to High

Rivers and flooding history near SO52

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

Romsey Botley Road on the Tadburn Lake — 3.5 km away, highest on record 1.32m
Longbridge on the River Test — 3.7 km away, highest on record 1.77m
Plaza Grill on the Barge Canal — 3.9 km away, highest on record 17.84m
Brewery Grill on the Oxlease Drain — 4.5 km away, highest on record 17.37m

578 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (135 at warning level or above), most recently 30 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

River Test Aerial Photography (2014) — about 5.8 km from the centre
Winter 2000/01gw_River Test_Romsey(1) (2000) — about 5.1 km from the centre
24/12/1999_Tadburn Lake_Romsey(1) (1999) — about 3.2 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

SO51 SO53 SO50 SO45 SO43 SO42 SO41 SO40

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.