WC1A: 12 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

WC1A on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 12 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in WC1A, WC1A 9AL, stands 12 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, WC1A 1JD, stands 20 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 18 m and 25 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 24 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Camden; partly in Islington.

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