SE3: 2.5 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SE3 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 2.5 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SE3, SE3 7RP, stands 2.5 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SE3 8EL, stands 53 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 23 m and 46 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 Greenwich; partly in Lewisham.

Open SE3 on the map