Environment Agency monitoring directory
The Bure and Back Brook north of Bicester Village at Hanover Gardens, the Causeway and Priory Lane
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Is an official warning active now?
Official area details
- Watercourse or coast
- Bure, Back Brook
- Directory county
- Oxfordshire
- EA operational area
- Oxfordshire
- Coverage category
- Designated Flood Warning Area
Use this information safely
- For conditions now: use the live panel and verify on the official flood service.
- For a property: use the official long-term risk checker; this directory is not address-level evidence.
- For river levels: open a nearby monitoring station and check the reading time.
- For immediate danger: follow emergency-service instructions and call 999.
Nearby river-level stations
These are measuring instruments, not reported flood locations. A station reading must be interpreted with its timestamp, station datum and any official threshold context.
Iffley Lock
River Thames · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Godstow Lock
River Thames · Vale of White Horse
Thame Bridge
River Thame · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Grendon Underwood
River Ray · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Bodicote
Sor Brook · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Wheatley
River Thame · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Wendlebury
Wendlebury Brook · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Woodstock
River Glyme · Cotswolds
Heyford Bridge
River Cherwell · Cherwell Thame and Wye
Property and insurance decisions
Inclusion in an EA monitoring area does not by itself establish a property's flood probability, insurance eligibility or premium. Check the address-level official service and ask the insurer or a qualified surveyor about the property.
Read the flood insurance guide →