SE12: 8.4 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SE12 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 8.4 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SE12, SE12 8LN, stands 8.4 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SE12 9PU, stands 58 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 17 m and 51 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 35 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Lewisham; partly in Greenwich.

Open SE12 on the map