SE9: 16 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SE9 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 16 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SE9, SE9 5LS, stands 16 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SE9 1NE, stands 85 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 36 m and 70 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 50 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Greenwich; partly in Bromley.

Open SE9 on the map