N16: 3.2 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

N16 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 N16, N16 6AE, stands 3.2 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, N16 6QT, stands 28 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 21 m and 30 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 25 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Hackney; partly in Islington.

Open N16 on the map