RM5: 12 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

RM5 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 12 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in RM5, RM5 3AB, stands 12 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, RM5 3FG, stands 71 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 27 m and 56 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 Havering; partly in Barking and Dagenham.

Open RM5 on the map