Does Gosberton flood?

What the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk data says about Gosberton

Ordnance Survey places 37 postcodes in Gosberton in the Environment Agency's rivers-and-sea flood-risk dataset (Risk of Flooding from Rivers and Sea). Each postcode is counted once, under the worst band any of its properties reaches; together they hold 567 properties in the EA dataset's likelihood bands.

This dataset covers flooding from rivers and the sea only — one of five flood sources. Surface water, groundwater, sewers and reservoirs are assessed separately, so a postcode missing from it is not proof that a place cannot flood. The band describes the land around properties (allowing for defences), not any single address and not today's conditions.

Rivers and live river levels near Gosberton

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Gosberton watch River Glen, South Forty Foot Drain.

• Surfleet Sluice Structure
  River Glen · 4.7 km away 0.86 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 29 min ago
• Donington Bridge
  South Forty Foot Drain · 7.6 km away 0.71 m
  normal range · 29 min ago
• Fosdyke Bridge Tidal
  Tide · 7.7 km away 3.98 m
  rises and falls with the tide · 29 min ago
• Dowsby Fen
  South Forty Foot Drain · 8.1 km away 0.76 m
  normal range · just past its peak · 29 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Gosberton's at-risk postcodes. Tidal and structure gauges are shown as readings only — the tide and sluice gates move them, not floods. A gauge with no recent reading shows no level.

Flood warning areas near Gosberton

11 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Gosberton. The EA has issued 133 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 15 Feb 2026.

• River Glen at Surfleet Reservoir during high tide periods
  24 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 4.6 km
• Tidal flooding from the Left Bank of the River Welland in Surfleet Seas End, Sutterton Dowdyke and Fosdyke
  no warning on record since 2006 4.8 km
• Far extent of tidal flooding from the Wash between Gibraltar point and Admiralty Point and the Tidal River Witham, the Tidal River Welland and the Tidal River Nene
  12 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Nov 2007 5.7 km
• Isolated properties and villages in wider low lying areas east of the South Forty Foot Drain and minor tributaries from Bourne to Boston
  26 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 5.7 km
• Area at risk from the furthest extent of tidal flooding from Holland Fen to Northgate, including Swineshead, Kirton, Donington and Gosberton
  no warning on record since 2006 5.9 km
• Tidal flooding from the Right Bank of the River Welland in parts of Spalding, Low Fulney and Moulton Common
  no warning on record since 2006 7.5 km
• Fulney to Fosdyke Bridge including Wykeham, Wragg Marsh, Spalding Marsh, Surfleet Marsh and Moutlon Marsh
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Dec 2013 7.8 km
• Western areas of Spalding on the left bank of the River Welland and areas around Pinchbeck, including Crossgate, Pode Hole and Little London
  no warning on record since 2006 8.5 km
• Isolated properties and villages east South Forty Foot and tributaries including property around Baker's Bridge, West Low Grounds, Bicker Fen, Surfleet Fen, Pinchbeck North Fen, Northgate and Bourne North Fen
  3 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 8.8 km
• Isolated properties and villages west South Forty Foot from Dyke Fen upstream, via Caswell's Bridge to Donington High Bridge on Horbling Fen downstream
  10 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2025 9.1 km
• Isolated properties and villages in low lying areas west of the South Forty Foot Drain from north Heckington to Bourne, including property at Northbeck, Scredlington, Spanby, Swaton, Osbournby, Haconby and Spanby
  56 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 9.5 km

Recorded floods near Gosberton

Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of Gosberton, most recent first. Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded. See them on the map →

• 9 Apr 1998 — LNA_1998_April_River Glen_Surfleet Other

Rainfall near Gosberton

Gosberton gets about 590 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 60 mm; driest March, 34 mm). That is 49% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 1.6 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (7.0 km away), recorded 3.2 mm in the last 24 hours and 41.2 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 29 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Gosberton

Every postcode Ordnance Survey places in Gosberton that appears in the EA's rivers-and-sea dataset, worst band first. Each links to its own flood-risk page.

Medium likelihood (37)

Postcode districts

Sources

FloodRadar summarises public flood data. It is not a flood-risk survey of any property, and it does not replace official GOV.UK flood warnings or the GOV.UK long-term flood risk service.