Lower Shiplake

Lower Shiplake is covered by postcode district RG9. It is in the South Oxfordshire council area, Oxfordshire.

Typical price £1,770,000 Homes sold in Lower Shiplake, last 12 months Gigabit broadband 40 of 54 postcodes where every home and business can get it Flooding Some at high risk 23 of 54 postcodes have a home or business in an area at risk; 74 homes and businesses at high or medium risk Nearest school Shiplake Church of England School 1.6 km from the middle, in a straight line

Every postcode in Lower Shiplake, by flood risk

Map of every postcode in Lower Shiplake, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 31 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 7 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Lower Shiplake. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 250 m. A4155 RG9 3BT: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JG: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JH: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JN: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JP: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JQ: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JR: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JS: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JT: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JU: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JW: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JY: not on the flood risk listRG9 3JZ: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LA: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LB: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LE: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LG: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LH: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LN: not on the flood risk listRG9 3LU: not on the flood risk listRG9 3ND: not on the flood risk listRG9 3PD: not on the flood risk listRG9 3PE: not on the flood risk listRG9 3PG: not on the flood risk listRG9 3PH: not on the flood risk listRG9 3PJ: not on the flood risk listRG9 4AA: not on the flood risk listRG9 4AB: not on the flood risk listRG9 4AD: not on the flood risk listRG9 4AE: not on the flood risk listRG9 4AG: not on the flood risk listRG9 3BX: low flood risk at worstRG9 3BY: low flood risk at worstRG9 3BZ: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LD: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LF: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LJ: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LL: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LX: low flood risk at worstRG9 3NB: low flood risk at worstRG9 3NE: low flood risk at worstRG9 3NY: low flood risk at worstRG9 3PA: low flood risk at worstRG9 3PB: low flood risk at worstRG9 3LT: medium flood risk at worstRG9 3NG: medium flood risk at worstRG9 3LP: high flood riskRG9 3LS: high flood riskRG9 3LW: high flood riskRG9 3NR: high flood riskRG9 3NS: high flood riskRG9 3NT: high flood riskRG9 3NU: high flood riskRG9 3NX: high flood risk Lower Shiplake 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined: this goes to RG9 3NX, the one with most homes and businesses at high risk7 postcodes at high or medium risk Map of every postcode in Lower Shiplake, by flood risk Of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 31 are not on the Environment Agency's at-risk list. One group of postcodes at high or medium risk is outlined: 7 postcodes at high or medium risk. Places named: Lower Shiplake. Drawn over roads, rivers and built-up areas. North is up; the scale bar is 500 m. Lower Shiplake
  • A home or business at high risk: 8
  • At medium risk at worst: 2
  • At low risk at worst: 13
  • At very low risk only: 0
  • Not on the at-risk list: 31
  • Outline: where 5 or more postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

Of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake that ONS places, 8 have a home or business at high risk, 2 are at medium risk at worst, 13 are at low risk at worst and 31 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. A dashed outline shows where 5 or more lie within 250 metres of each other. It is not a boundary, and no boundary is drawn.

The middle of its postcodes: latitude 51.5099, longitude -0.8872. 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.

RG9 3NS16 at high riskRG9 3NR10 at high riskRG9 3NT6 at high riskRG9 3NX5 at high riskRG9 3NU3 at high riskRG9 3LP3 at high riskRG9 3LS2 at high riskRG9 3LW2 at high risk

Where the postcodes at high or medium risk lie together

  • 7 postcodes at high or medium risk, outlined on the map. RG9 3NX, is the one with most homes and businesses at high risk.

What is it like to live in Lower Shiplake?

Homes sold for a typical £1,770,000 in the 12 months to September 2026. At 40 of the 54 postcodes Ofcom reports on, every home and business can get gigabit broadband. The Environment Agency counts 74 homes and businesses at high or medium risk of flooding from rivers or the sea, at 23 of its 54 postcodes. The nearest school is Shiplake Church of England School, 1.6 km from the middle of its postcodes. The nearest GP practice is Wargrave Practice, 2.0 km from the middle. The nearest railway station is Shiplake, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line.

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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 Lower Shiplake?

Homes in Lower Shiplake sold for a typical £1,770,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, across 6 sales, HM Land Registry's figures show. The 12 months before gave £1,450,000 from 13 sales. With fewer than 30 sales a year, a change can come from which homes happened to sell, so we do not give one.

£1,770,000 typical price, the 12 months to September 2026
£1,450,000 12 months to September 2025
  • Detached £1,770,000 6 sales

Across the whole RG9 district, Lower Shiplake's main postcode district: a typical £760,000.

Sales at the postcodes ONS places in Lower Shiplake: 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 Lower Shiplake?

1 of the 54 postcodes now in use in Lower Shiplake came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 13 homes sold in Lower Shiplake were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RG9 district, 5%.

The newest postcodes

RG9 3BTsince November 2021

A new postcode is often a new street or estate, but Royal Mail also makes new postcodes when it reorganises old ones, so not every one means new homes. Only postcodes still in use are counted.

New homes among the homes sold

PeriodIn Lower ShiplakeAcross the RG9 district
The 12 months to September 2026 0 of 6 (0%) 4 of 259 (2%)
The 12 months to September 2025 0 of 13 (0%) 19 of 370 (5%)

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 Lower Shiplake?

Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband.

Postcodes where every home can get gigabit40 of 54
Postcodes where every home can get superfast52 of 54

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.

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Source: Ofcom Connected Nations, Connected Nations, Spring 2026, data for January 2026.

Is Lower Shiplake at risk of flooding?

23 of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake 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 74 homes and businesses in an area at high or medium risk.

Homes and businesses in an area at risk, at 23 of 54 postcodes High: 47Medium: 27Low: 157

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 Lower Shiplake?

There is no primary school at the postcodes in Lower Shiplake; these are the nearest to its middle. 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.

Primary

Secondary

An orange bar: the school has as many pupils as places, or more (Department for Education's figures).

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Source: Get Information about Schools, read 17 October 2026. Each school opens its own record there.

How far is the station from Lower Shiplake?

The nearest railway station to the centre point of the postcodes in Lower Shiplake is Shiplake Rail Station, 350 m away in a straight line.

  • Shiplake Rail Station Railway station 350 mWalk
  • Wargrave Rail Station Railway station 1.5 kmCycle
  • Henley-on-Thames Rail Station Railway station 2.8 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 Lower Shiplake?

There is no GP practice at the postcodes in Lower Shiplake. These are the nearest to its middle, in a straight line. Each practice sets the area it takes patients from, so check with it before registering.

Find a GP on the NHS website

Sources: NHS GP practices, read 17 October 2026; Care Quality Commission, ratings of 1 October 2026.

Is Lower Shiplake safe? Crime recorded around it

Police.uk records 32 crimes and reports of anti-social behaviour within a mile of the middle of the postcodes in Lower Shiplake 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. 5 September 2025
  2. 1 October 2025
  3. 1 November 2025
  4. 5 December 2025
  5. 3 January 2026
  6. 1 February 2026
  7. 2 March 2026
  8. 1 April 2026
  9. 3 May 2026
  10. None June 2026
  11. 6 July 2026
  12. 4 August 2026

By kind, over the 12 months

Violence and sexual offences9 reports
Criminal damage and arson6 reports
Other theft4 reports
Burglary3 reports
Anti-social behaviour2 reports
Bicycle theft2 reports
Drugs2 reports
Other crime2 reports

Also: public order 1, theft from the person 1.

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 postcode

Source: police.uk, data to August 2026, from its download of 30 September 2026.

Who runs Lower Shiplake?

District, borough or city council
South Oxfordshire
County council
Oxfordshire
Parliamentary constituency
Henley and Thame
Police force area
Thames Valley
Region
South East
Country
England
MP
Freddie van Mierlo (Liberal Democrat)

All 54 postcodes here share these. Wards differ: check a postcode for yours. What council am I in?

Sources: ONS Postcode Directory, August 2026, loaded 20 October 2026; UK Parliament, read 14 October 2026.

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Lower Shiplake postcodes

54 postcodes in use in Lower Shiplake, by district:

RG9 postcode district,54 postcodes

That district is in the RG postcode area.

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Places near Lower Shiplake

With the typical price of a home in each, to set beside Lower Shiplake's £1,770,000. Distances are straight lines between the middles of each place's postcodes.

Wargrave1.8 km, £850,000Henley-on-Thames3.0 km, £640,000Charvil3.8 km, £642,500Twyford3.8 km, £535,000Hurst6.2 km, £570,000Woodley6.5 km, £447,500Caversham6.8 km, £442,000Sonning Common6.8 km, £548,000 All places A to Z

Quick answers about Lower Shiplake

What is the postcode for Lower Shiplake?
Postcode district RG9, with 54 postcodes in use. Source: ONS.
Which council is Lower Shiplake in?
South Oxfordshire, with Oxfordshire as its county council. Source: ONS.
Who is the MP for Lower Shiplake?
Freddie van Mierlo (Liberal Democrat), for Henley and Thame. Source: UK Parliament and ONS.
How much are houses in Lower Shiplake?
A typical £1,770,000 in the 12 months to September 2026, from 6 sales. Source: HM Land Registry.
What schools are in Lower Shiplake?
The nearest primary school to the middle of its postcodes is Shiplake Church of England School, 1.6 km away; the nearest secondary school to the middle of its postcodes is Shiplake College, 1.4 km away. Source: Department for Education.
Does Lower Shiplake have a railway station?
Yes: Shiplake station, 350 metres from the middle of its postcodes in a straight line. Source: Department for Transport.
What broadband can you get in Lower Shiplake?
Ofcom reports on 54 of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake. At 40 of them every home and business can get gigabit broadband. Source: Ofcom.
Is Lower Shiplake at risk of flooding?
23 of the 54 postcodes in Lower Shiplake 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 74 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 Lower Shiplake?
1 of the 54 postcodes now in use in Lower Shiplake came into use in January 2020 or later, ONS says. In the 12 months to September 2025, 0 of the 13 homes sold in Lower Shiplake were newly built (0%), HM Land Registry's records show; across the RG9 district, 5%. Source: ONS and HM Land Registry.

Where the facts on this page come from

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. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0.

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