EC1A: 3.2 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

EC1A on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 3.2 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in EC1A, EC1A 2BP, stands 3.2 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, EC1A 1AA, stands 15 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 14 m and 18 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 City of London; partly in Islington.

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