E2: 5.9 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

E2 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 5.9 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in E2, E2 0EU, stands 5.9 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, E2 8AR, stands 14 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 13 m and 17 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 15 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Tower Hamlets; partly in Hackney.

Open E2 on the map