IG8: 5.3 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

IG8 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 5.3 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in IG8, IG8 8FL, stands 5.3 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, IG8 0SG, stands 69 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 15 m and 66 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 36 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Redbridge; partly in Waltham Forest.

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