E8: 6.5 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

E8 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 6.5 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in E8, E8 1DU, stands 6.5 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, E8 2DS, stands 20 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 15 m and 19 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 17 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Hackney; partly in Tower Hamlets.

Open E8 on the map