E1: 2.5 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

E1 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 2.5 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in E1, E1 4QH, stands 2.5 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, E1 6JE, stands 11 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 10 m and 14 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 12 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Tower Hamlets; partly in City of London.

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