No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Updated 2026-10-09 18:45:51 UTC · Official GOV.UK warnings · Flood preparation & help guide
Upper Lambourn is a small village in the county of Berkshire, England. The village is situated in the civil parish of Lambourn, and is 1.2 miles (2 km) to the north-west of the village of Lambourn, just off the Lambourn to Shrivenham road. The parish is within the district of West Berkshire, close to the point where the counties of Berkshire, Oxfordshire and Wiltshire meet.
Towns and villages near Upper Lambourn with a page of their own: the homes in a flood risk area there, the nearest river gauges, and recorded floods.
Place names: Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026. Contains Royal Mail data © Royal Mail copyright and database right 2026. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
The river map has no watercourse within 1 km of the middle of Upper Lambourn's gauges.
That means this spot is not on the river map, not that there is no water here: Ordnance Survey’s river map (OS Open Rivers) leaves out small streams, ditches and culverts. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database rights 2026.
Upper Lambourn is monitored by 1 Environment Agency river level station on the Groundwater Level, in West Berkshire. Water levels are updated every 15 minutes, providing real-time flood monitoring for the area.
The Groundwater Level is monitored by 1 station (Longacre). Each station records water levels continuously, with data synced to FloodRadar every 5 minutes.
There are 5 Environment Agency flood warning areas within 10km of Upper Lambourn. When the EA issues a flood warning for any of these areas, it will appear on this page. These include: Communities at risk of groundwater flooding in the Lambourn area; River Lambourn from Upper Lambourn to Great Shefford including Lambourn, Eastbury and East Garston; Letcombe Brook at Letcombe Bassett and Letcombe Regis; Areas at risk of groundwater flooding in the Upper Aldbourne Valley including Aldbourne.
If flooding is forecast in Upper Lambourn, call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 for the latest information. Move valuables upstairs, turn off gas and electricity if safe to do so, and avoid walking or driving through flood water. Sign up for flood warnings on any station page above to receive email alerts when water levels rise. For emergency numbers, a preparation checklist and insurance guidance, see our flood help & preparation guide.
Upper Lambourn gets about 774 mm of rain a year on average (wettest month November, 83 mm; driest March, 51 mm). That is 33% drier than the UK as a whole, which averages 1,163 mm a year. See the rain gauges →
A thirty-year average for the area, not a forecast and not a flood risk on its own. Source: Met Office HadUK-Grid 1991–2020 (5 km grid), 0.4 km away. Average rainfall: HadUK-Grid v1.3.2, Met Office. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Floods whose mapped extent (EA Recorded Flood Outlines) reached within ~5 km of the town centre — most recent first. These are records of mapped extents, not a full list of floods. See them on the map →
Records, not floods: no outline on the record is not evidence a place has not flooded.
Current verdict: Normal. No official flood warning is active nearby and the closest river stations are within normal ranges.
Upper Lambourn has river level monitoring on Groundwater Level — 1 monitoring station in total.
Use the GOV.UK Check for Flooding service (check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk) or call Floodline on 0345 988 1188 (24 hours). You can also set up free FloodRadar email or browser alerts from any station page above.
Follow official advice: move valuables and vehicles to safety, never walk or drive through flood water, turn off gas and electricity if safe, and check on vulnerable neighbours. See our flood preparation guide at floodradar.co.uk/flood-help.
No recorded flood outline is mapped around the Upper Lambourn town centre means no flood was mapped here, which is not evidence none happened: the Environment Agency mapped only some floods, mapping effort rose sharply after about 2000, and surface-water flooding is largely absent from this record. FloodRadar has separately logged 10 flood warnings or alerts for the West Berkshire area since February 2026. See the flood history link below.
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