SW17: 3.2 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

SW17 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 3.2 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in SW17, SW17 0JQ, stands 3.2 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, SW17 9BW, stands 34 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 11 m and 34 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 20 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Wandsworth; partly in Merton.

Open SW17 on the map