Does TA12 flood?

Yes — parts of the TA12 district carry real flood risk: 7 of its 22 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The TA12 postcode district covers Martock, Curry Rivel & Langport, close to Kingsbury Episcopi, Long Load, Langport, and surrounding villages in Somerset.

22 postcodes in the TA12 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 7 high, 4 medium, 11 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 TA12 postcodes are at risk?

Rivers and flooding history near TA12

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

Gaw Bridge on the River Parrett — 0.8 km away, highest on record 3.84m
Long Load on the Witcombe Bottom Main Drain — 4.2 km away, highest on record 10.64m
Midelney on the River Isle — 5 km away, highest on record 3.93m
Midelney on the West Moor Drain — 5 km away, highest on record 4.04m

355 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (72 at warning level or above), most recently 14 March 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

Thorney_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 3.8 km from the centre
Flood Extents_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 5 km from the centre
Thorney_Winter 2013 to 2014 (2014) — about 3.8 km from the centre
Nov 2012 Floods (2012) — about 16.3 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

TA11 TA13 TA10 TA14 TA15 TA9 TA16 TA8

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.