Does TN30 flood?

Yes — parts of the TN30 district carry real flood risk: 8 of its 13 at-risk postcodes reach the Environment Agency's High likelihood band. The TN30 postcode district covers Isle of Oxney, Rolvenden & Tenterden West, Tenterden South, close to Rye, Broadland Row, Kingsnorth, and surrounding villages in parts of East Sussex and Kent.

13 postcodes in the TN30 district appear in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset — worst bands: 8 high, 2 medium, 3 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 TN30 postcodes are at risk?

TN30 6UE up to High TN30 7AF up to High TN30 7EG up to High TN30 7EL up to High TN30 7EX up to High TN30 7HU up to High TN30 7PT up to High TN30 7PU up to High TN30 7DW up to Medium TN30 7LS up to Medium TN30 6UD up to Low TN30 7LA up to Low TN30 7PX up to Low

Rivers and flooding history near TN30

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

Hundred House Bridge on the Royal Military Canal — 10.5 km away, highest on record 1.88m
Winchelsea Strand Bridge on the River Brede — 12.2 km away, highest on record 3.73m
Smarden on the River Beult — 13 km away, highest on record 4.16m
Udiam on the River Rother — 13.4 km away, highest on record 3.36m

103 official flood warnings and alerts have been raised within ~10 km of the district's centre since 2006 (2 at warning level or above), most recently 18 February 2026. Warnings cover flood areas, not individual addresses.

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

07316D200FEO_DEC2009_Wet_Level (2009) — about 2.8 km from the centre
07316D200_DEC1985_Rother_Potman's Heath (1985) — about 3 km from the centre
07316D212/213_DEC1985_Tenterden & Cradlebridge Sew (1985) — about 4 km from the centre
07316D211_DEC1985_Reading Sewer_Potman's Heath (1985) — about 3.8 km from the centre

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Flood risk in nearby postcode districts

TN29 TN31 TN28 TN32 TN27 TN33 TN26 TN34

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.