SW16: 13 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SW16 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 13 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SW16, SW16 6QE, stands 13 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SW16 3EY, stands 88 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 29 m and 62 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 41 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Lambeth; partly in Croydon.

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