UPDATES: Roads and services affected by storms

UPDATE 15/02/14 – 16:00 hrs – Power restored to Aston Rowant, Lewknor and parts of Chinnor and Watlington by 4.30pm today, area after 16 hours.

UPDATE 23:24 hrs – CHINNOR to ‘RISBOROUGH is badly flooded 2 ft and rising under bridge, there is also a tree blocking station road in chinnor. (from @aqualimeblue – twitter)

UPDATE 23:25 hrs – Tree down on Risborough rail line –  passenger stranded. (via @aqualimeblue on twitter)

UPDATE 23:15 hrs – Careful if you are travelling from Thame to Chinnor, the road is badly flooded from Emmington to the Towersey triangle, trees down too. (via @BrownsThame – twitter)

UPDATE 20:37 hrs – Lower HADDENHAM to Aylesbury road closed at Ford crossroads – huge tree down – all routes blocked. Police etc on scene –  via steve trenchard @oakfloorboy – twitter

UPDATE: 20:00 hrs – Thame United First team match scheduled for tomorrow at the ASM Stadium against Brimscombe has been postponed due to a waterlogged pitch.

UPDATE 20:00 hrs – DINTON crossroad closed as a tree just fell on a car, everyone OK (via @C_ASHTONCRISP); Power out at ASTON ROWANT (via @ccoateschef – twitter)

UPDATE 19:40 hrs – Tree down in Sydenham – cannot access from Kingston Blout end (via @redbarrington twitter)

UPDATE 17:00 hrs – B4009 at Watlington towards Shirburn – cable hanging in centre of the road…tree hanging there now – via BBC Travel twitter feed

UPDATE 15:00 hrs  – B4009 at Crowell no longer closed and buses running through again (Arriva 40). But the road through the village of North Weston to Shabbington IS closed once again.

UPDATE 12.37 hrs – Only road closure remain in our area is the B4009 at CROWELL – via Oxfordshire County Council

UPDATE 12:00 hrs – Thame to Chinnor road has flooding as normal by Towersey triangle, only surface water on remainder at the moment. via @ThameLoyalty twitter

UPDATE today 14/02/14 -11.00 hrs – THAME to CHINNOR road – no deep water but the POTHOLES  are getting worse & hidden by surface water so you need to drive slowly & carefully. (via @ims_mortgages on twitter)

UPDATE 11.00 hrs – Arriva service 40 bus currently unable to serve Chinnor. Going to Thame via Postcombe. Not serving Aston Rowant or Kingston Blount either. Red Rose service 275 also diverted but website out of date. (via twitter @BusUsersOxford )

UPDATE today 13/02/14 – 08.00 hrs – The only road currently closed in our area remains B4009 between Aston Rowant and Kinston Blount (also at Crowell )

UPDATE today 17.15 hrs – The road at Crowell is flooded & closed. “Worse than last time.” – Update from @tinalodge via twitter

UPDATE today 17.30pm – Standing water on Chinnor Road from Thame though passable. Tree down earlier this PM near Inn at Emmington but it has been cleared.

UPDATE today 12/02/14 – 09.00 hrs- Only official road closure this morning in our area is the B4009 between Aston Rowant and Kinston Blount (also at Crowell )

UPDATE 16.00 hrs – Road still officially closed –  B4009 between Aston Rowant and Kinston Blount (also at Crowell ) – from Oxfordshire County Council website

UPDATE 14.00 hrs – Crowell and Kingston Blount were passable again today via @mybigmouth79 on twitter.

UPDATE today, 11/02/14 10.00 hrs – Arriva Service 40 covering Aston Rowant, Kingston Blount Chinnor and Kingston Stert is now running a normal service.

UPDATE 15.00 hrs – B4009 Lower Icknield Way in Chinnor closed around the Elderdene junction, because of flooding. Also B4009 High Street Kingston Blount, now closed both ways at Stert Road in both directions around the Stert Road junction, because of flooding.

UPDATE 12.05 hrs – B4009 High Street in KINGSTON BLOUNT around the Stert Road junction was passable with care at 08:50 this morning – message from Andy Henderson;  Road through the village of North Weston near Postcombe still closed.

UPDATE 11.30 hrs today – CHANGES TO BUS ROUTES: Due to flood water, Arriva Service 40 is unable to serve Aston Rowant, Kingston Blount Chinnor and Kingston Stert instead running via Postcombe direct into Thame.

UPDATE 11.15 hrs today- The road from B4445 to Sydenham is now open. REMAINING CLOSED  –  B4009 between Aston Rowant and Kinston Blount (also at Crowell ); Lower Icknield Road, Chinnor

UPDATE 08.50 hrs today – Thame – Chinnor road passable just watch the potholes! From Steve Bailey via twitter

UPDATE 07.30am  – 10/02/14 – B4009 Oxfordshire – B4009 High Street in KINGSTON BLOUNT closed in both directions around the Stert Road junction, because of flooding; Road from SYDENHAM to EMMINGTON in Emmington closed at the B4445 junction, because of flooding.

UPDATE 14.30 hrs – 08/02/14 – Lower icknield Way, CHINNOR, just about passable; Thame Road OK now but was bad yesterday morning- the ditches were overflowing – update from @woxwhite via twitter; PRIEST END flooded (see pictures HERE);  The THAME to Chinnor Road  is much better today – still got potholes! – update from lotte Duncan via twitter; REPORTS of houses flooded in Towersey yesterday, including the Old Dairy and houses near by – Towersey to Chinnor Road now clear; MORE gardens under water in Aylesbury Road, Thame, this morning (see pictures HERE)

UPDATE 08/02/14 – 09.00 hrs – Flood water on the Aylesbury Road, Thame,  taken just before 8am this morning; via Kirsten Purnell on twitter. Other road closures – Mill Road, Shabbington, Stranbridge Road, Haddenham and Ickford Road, Sheldon Road, Worminghall Road – Ickford. Water creeping ominously close to houses in gardens in Aylesbury Road. SEE flickr pictures update.

 UPDATE 23.00 hrs – Road through the village of South Weston near Postcombe closed due to flooding; 

UPDATE 21.00 hrs – Lower Icknield Road, Chinnor, closed due to flooding.

UPDATE 17.45 hrs – The only road out of  Worminghall not affected by floods is the road to Oakley (via twitter) – FLOOD  alerts for the River Thame  HERE

UPDATE  16.20 hrs – Severe flooding on Thame to Chinnor road has subsided. Still flooded Towersey triangle and beyond towards Chinnor, drive slowly!

UPDATE 15.00 hrs – Road closed between Northend and Shabbington – Not passable though some trying & having to turn back !  & very bad flooding all the way to Waterperry.

UPDATE 14.28 HRS – Cuttlebrook this afternoon – wide flooding & bridges & paths all impassable. 

UPDATE 13.24 hrs – Sydenham Road into Thame from B4445 at Emmington is closed – IMAGES from those affected by the floods HERE

UPDATE 13.00 hrs – ROAD CLOSURES – B4009 between Aston Rowant and Kinston Blount (also at Crowell ); Sydenham Road into village from B4445 at Emmington 

UPDATES today, 07/02/14 –  LOTS of problems this morning 9.00 am – Chinnor to Thame road severely flooded all the way from the Inn at Emmington to Thame. Very deep in places & still rising – avoid.  River Thame at Cuddington now flowing over the road at Winchendon turn, but still passable. Roads to Thame, PrincesRisborough, Crowell and AstonRowant all pretty much blocked from Chinnor. (Message via twitter);

“Thame to Milton flooded – vehicles moving to avoid water ending up pretty much head on on a sharp bend.” BBC Travels says road between Thame and M40 only passable in one direction; Road between kingston blount and M40 junction 6 flooded standing water . Avoid – go via Thame or kingston Hill, Stokenchurch.  Pegasus Way to Haddenham & Thame Parkway is flooded and almost impassible! Chinnor Road in Towersey is flooded! Can just about drive through slowly; Lot of water on the A4129 Longwick to Thame Road but ok to drive if carefully.

UPDATE 14.30 hrs today – The water level has gone down considerably at Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve in Thame, and IMS Morthages reported on twitter that most of the paths are passable now.

UPDATE 09.00 hrs today, 06/02/14 – The Thame to Chinnor road is passable as the water level has gone down considerably but drive with care as the road surface is very badly eroded with several large potholes.

UPDATE 23.50 hrs – From Chinno Railway – Things a little improved driving back about 22.30, still a big but passable flood on B4009 at Bucks/Oxon border.

UPDATE 20.15 hrs – THERE are several patches of standing/flowing water on B4009: M40 to Bledlow via Chinnor. Passable with care according to twitter follower.

FOLLOWING heavy, continuous rain and high winds overnight and today, flooding has once again returned to some of the local roads.

The Thame to Chinnor Road is once more ‘like a river’ according to local drivers on twitter today, concealing some very large potholes beneath, and again, the villages of Sydenham, so often the victim of flooding, is very badly flooded. The residents are once again asking that drivers avoid the village if they can, and if not, to drive very slowly through the water as the wash from cars driving too fast takes even more water out to their properties.

Sandy Lane in Tiddington though, which was closed for several days because of flooding, was re-opened earlier today. Dog walkers at Cuttlebrook Nature Reserve have reported that the brook has burst it banks and that the paths are all flooded and the bridge is not passable.