W5: 5.8 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

W5 on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 5.8 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in W5, W5 4RG, stands 5.8 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, W5 3DD, stands 59 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 22 m and 45 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 30 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Ealing; partly in Hounslow.

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