SE26: 17 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SE26 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 17 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SE26, SE26 5BH, stands 17 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SE26 6SU, stands 106 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 29 m and 95 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 54 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Lewisham; partly in Bromley.

Open SE26 on the map