BR1: 19 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

BR1 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 19 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in BR1, BR1 5QU, stands 19 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, BR1 2SX, stands 87 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 41 m and 73 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 64 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Bromley; partly in Lewisham.

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