Groombridge
Groombridge is covered by postcode district TN3. It is mostly in the Wealden council area: 52 of its 56 postcodes. The others are in Tunbridge Wells. 52 are in East Sussex and 4 in Kent.
Every postcode in Groombridge, by flood risk
- A home or business at high risk: 1
- At medium risk at worst: 1
- At low risk at worst: 0
- At very low risk only: 0
- Not on the at-risk list: 54
Of the 56 postcodes in Groombridge that ONS places, 1 have a home or business at high risk, 1 are at medium risk at worst and 54 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list.
Each mark is a postcode's centre point as ONS gives it, not a building. Press one to see its postcode and open its page. No boundary is drawn.
The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.1127, longitude 0.1845. Open this area on OpenStreetMap
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026; roads, rivers and built-up areas: Ordnance Survey open maps. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2026. Drawn by us. Street map: Ordnance Survey, OS Open Zoomstack, Open Government Licence v3.0, drawn with MapLibre.
The postcodes at high risk
Beside each: how many of its homes and businesses the Environment Agency puts at that risk.
What is it like to live in Groombridge?
Homes sold for a typical £500,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 2 of the 56 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 6 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 2 of its 56 postcodes. It has 1 primary school at its postcodes. One GP practice is at its postcodes. The nearest railway station is Ashurst (Kent), 2.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.
We don't rate places; here are the figures so you can judge.
Sources: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data; Ofcom Connected Nations; Environment Agency flood risk; Get Information about Schools; NHS GP practices; NaPTAN. Each figure is from a section of this page, which gives its date.
What do homes cost in Groombridge?
Homes in Groombridge sold for a typical £500,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 13 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £531,250 from 20 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.
- Detached 3 sales, too few to price
- Semi-detached £500,000 8 sales
- Terraced 1 sale, too few to price
- Flat or maisonette 1 sale, too few to price
Across the whole TN3 district, Groombridge's main postcode district: a typical £698,000.
Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Groombridge: standard sales of homes at market value. A typical price is the median, the middle sale. Sales take weeks to be registered, so the last month or two are incomplete. Each postcode page gives the figure for its own postcode sector.
Source: HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
Are new homes being built in Groombridge?
None of the 56 postcodes now in use in Groombridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 20 homes sold in Groombridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN3 district, 1%.
New homes among the homes sold
| Period | In Groombridge | Across the TN3 district |
|---|---|---|
| The 12 months to September 2026 | 0 of 13 (0%) | 1 of 97 (1%) |
| The 12 months to September 2025 | 0 of 20 (0%) | 2 of 146 (1%) |
Standard sales of homes at market value that HM Land Registry marks as newly built. New homes take longer to be registered than other sales, so the latest 12 months count fewer of them than were sold. A share is given from 5 sales or more.
Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; HM Land Registry Price Paid Data, files dated 28 October 2026.
What broadband can you get in Groombridge?
Ofcom reports on 56 of the 56 postcodes in Groombridge. At 2 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.
Ofcom gives each postcode's share of homes and businesses, not how many there are, so these count postcodes. Each postcode page has its own figures. A provider's checker answers for one address.
Check one address on Ofcom's checkerSource: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.
Is Groombridge at risk of flooding?
2 of the 56 postcodes in Groombridge have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.
High: 3.3% or more a year (1 in 30). Medium: 1% to 3.3% a year. Low: 0.1% to 1% a year. Very low: under 0.1% a year (1 in 1,000). Each band is the chance of flooding in any one year.
Homes and businesses in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, as the Environment Agency counts them, added up over the postcodes. It is for the land, not each building, and leaves out surface water, groundwater and sewers. Each postcode page has its own figures and its flood warning areas.
Source: Environment Agency flood risk, published 6 July 2026.
Which schools are in Groombridge?
The primary schools are at the postcodes in Groombridge. There is no secondary school at its postcodes; these are the nearest to its middle. Distances are straight lines from the middle of its postcodes. Distance is not a catchment: each council sets its own admission rules. Special schools and alternative provision, which children join by referral, are not listed.
An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).
Find and compare schools in England, on GOV.UKSource: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.
How far is the station from Groombridge?
The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Groombridge is Ashurst (Kent) Rail Station, 2.8 km away in a straight line.
- Ashurst (Kent) Rail Station Railway station 2.8 kmCycle
- Eridge Rail Station Railway station 2.9 kmCycle
- Tunbridge Wells Rail Station Railway station 5.8 kmDrive
- Groombridge (Spa Valley Railway) Underground, metro or tram 250 mWalk
- Eridge (Spa Valley Railway) Underground, metro or tram 2.9 kmCycle
Straight-line distances from the centre point, not routes. Walk: under 1.2 km. Cycle: 1.2 to 5 km. Drive: further.
Straight-line distances from the middle of the postcodes, not routes. Each postcode page lists its own nearest stations and bus stops. The Department for Transport's register does not say how often services run.
Source: NaPTAN, read 17 October 2026.
Which GP surgeries are in Groombridge?
The GP practices at the postcodes in Groombridge. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.
- Groombridge and Hartfield Medical Group Care Quality Commission rating: Good CQC report April 2017, over 3 years old · Phone 01892 863326 150 mWalk
Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.
Is Groombridge safe? Crime recorded around it
Police.uk records 23 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Groombridge over the 12 months from September 2025 to August 2026. August 2026 is the latest month it has published. These are counts, not a rate: we hold no count of the people who live, work or pass through, so we do not say whether a place is safe.
Each month, September 2025 to August 2026
- 1 September 2025
- 2 October 2025
- 2 November 2025
- 1 December 2025
- 2 January 2026
- 3 February 2026
- 5 March 2026
- None April 2026
- 1 May 2026
- None June 2026
- 1 July 2026
- 5 August 2026
By kind, over the 12 months
Police.uk says its locations "always represent the approximate location of a crime". Each crime is moved to the nearest of a fixed list of map points, each over a street centre, a public place or a commercial premises, chosen so that every point covers at least eight addresses or none. A mile is a wide circle: in a town it takes in the centre and its shops, where much crime is recorded.
Crime around one postcodeSource: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.
Who runs Groombridge?
- Councils
- Wealden (52) and Tunbridge Wells (4)
- County councils
- East Sussex (52) and Kent (4)
- Parliamentary constituencies
- Sussex Weald (52) and Tunbridge Wells (4)
- Police force areas
- Sussex (52) and Kent (4)
- Region
- South East
- Country
- England
Where the place crosses a boundary, a row lists each side with its number of postcodes. Check a postcode for its own. What council am I in?
Source: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026.
Moving to Groombridge
Who to tell and what to sort out in your first week. Most of Groombridge is in Wealden; near its edge, check which council a postcode is in.
- Tell Wealden about council tax Council tax, on wealden.gov.uk
- Register to vote at the new address Register to vote on GOV.UK
- Register with a GP practice The GP practices in Groombridge
- Take meter readings on the day you move in
- Power cut? Call 105. It is free. About 105, the power cut number
- Find out your bin day Find your rubbish collection day on GOV.UK
Groombridge postcodes
56 postcodes in use in Groombridge, by district:
That district is in the TN postcode area.
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Places near Groombridge
With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Groombridge's £500,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.
Quick answers about Groombridge
- What is the postcode for Groombridge?
- Postcode district TN3, with 56 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
- How much are houses in Groombridge?
- A typical £500,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 13 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
- What schools are in Groombridge?
- Primary schools at its postcodes include Groombridge St Thomas' Church of England Primary School; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Bennett Memorial Diocesan School, 5.5 km away. Source: Department for Education.
- Does Groombridge have a railway station?
- The nearest is Ashurst (Kent) station, 2.8 km from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
- What broadband can you get in Groombridge?
- Ofcom reports on 56 of the 56 postcodes in Groombridge. At 2 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
- Is Groombridge at risk of flooding?
- 2 of the 56 postcodes in Groombridge have a home or business in an area at risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, the Environment Agency says. At those, it puts 6 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk. River and sea risk for the land, not surface water. Source: Environment Agency.
- Are new homes being built in Groombridge?
- None of the 56 postcodes now in use in Groombridge came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 20 homes sold in Groombridge were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the TN3 district, 1%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.
Where the facts on this page come from
- Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory
- Environment Agency flood risk
- HM Land Registry Price Paid Data
- Ofcom Connected Nations
- Department for Education: Get Information about Schools
- Department for Transport: NaPTAN
- NHS England: NHS GP practices
- Care Quality Commission
- data.police.uk: police.uk
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright and database right 2021. This data is licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. This uses Care Quality Commission information.
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