Does Hilden Park flood?

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

Ordnance Survey places 38 postcodes in Hilden Park 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 618 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 Hilden Park

Environment Agency gauges within 10 km of Hilden Park watch River Medway, Bourne Tributary Medway, Eden Tributary Medway.

• Leigh Flood Storage Area
  River Medway · 2.0 km away 0.92 m
  above typical high · 28 min ago
• Town Lock Structure
  River Medway · 2.2 km away 1.20 m
  controlled by a sluice or weir · 28 min ago
• Hartlake Bridge
  River Medway · 5.3 km away 0.82 m
  normal range · rising · 28 min ago
• Hadlow
  Bourne Tributary Medway · 5.8 km away 0.31 m
  normal range · steady · 28 min ago
• Vexour Bridge
  Eden Tributary Medway · 6.9 km away 1.20 m
  normal range · falling · 28 min ago
• Penshurst
  Eden Tributary Medway · 6.9 km away 0.34 m
  normal range · 28 min ago
• Colliers Land Bridge
  River Medway · 8.4 km away 0.19 m
  normal range · 28 min ago
• Chafford
  River Medway · 9.3 km away 0.21 m
  normal range · rising · 28 min ago

Distances are from the middle of Hilden Park'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 Hilden Park

9 Environment Agency flood warning areas lie within 10 km of Hilden Park. The EA has issued 109 flood warnings and alerts for them since 2006, most recently on 6 Feb 2026.

• Properties at risk of flooding in Leigh Village
  no warning on record since 2006 3.3 km
• River Medway between Penshurst and the Leigh Flood Storage area
  2 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2015 3.8 km
• River Medway at Tonbridge and Hildenborough including Tudeley, Golden Green, Whetsted and Hartlake
  no warning on record since 2006 3.8 km
• Southborough Stream from Tunbridge Wells to Tonbridge
  no warning on record since 2006 3.9 km
• Southborough Stream from High Brooms to Tonbridge
  no warning on record since 2006 4.2 km
• River Medway from Penshurst to Hampstead Lock at Yalding, including the Leigh Flood Storage area, the Ensfield Road, Tonbridge, Paddock Wood, the Hop Farm, East Peckham, Branbridges and Hale Street
  44 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Feb 2026 5.3 km
• River Bourne from Hadlow to East Peckham, including Golden Green and Little Mill
  58 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Jan 2026 6.2 km
• Bourne at Hadlow and Golden Green
  no warning on record since 2006 6.4 km
• River Medway and The Bourne at East Peckham, including Little Mill and Hale Street
  5 warnings and alerts since 2006, latest Mar 2020 9.5 km

Recorded floods near Hilden Park

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

• 23 Dec 2013 — 07302C200_Dec2013_Medway_Eden_Teise_Beult Main river
• 23 Dec 2013 — 07302C200_Dec2013_Medway Main river
• 11 Oct 2000 — 07302C200_OCT2000_Medway Main river
• 14 Sep 1968 — 07302C200_SEPT1968_Medway_Edenbridge_Yalding Main river
• 1 Jan 1967 — 07302C200_NOV1967_Medway_Tonbridge Main river
• 18 Nov 1963 — 07302C200_NOV1963_Medway_Tonbridge Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_0010_Medway_Tonbridge Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Medway_Edenbridge_Yalding Main river
• 2 Nov 1960 — 07302C200_NOV1960_Bourne_Dunk's Green Ordinary watercourse
• 5 Sep 1958 — 07303C500_SEPT1958_EdenbridgetoEastPeckham Other

Rainfall near Hilden Park

Hilden Park gets about 701 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month October, 79 mm; driest March, 45 mm). That is 40% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.4 km from the place centre.

The nearest rain gauge, Rainfall station (1.9 km away), recorded 2.5 mm in the last 24 hours and 58.3 mm in the last 7 days (latest reading 28 min ago).

At-risk postcodes in Hilden Park

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

High likelihood (3)

Medium likelihood (14)

Low likelihood (18)

Very low likelihood (3)

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.