WC1B: 12 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

WC1B on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 12 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in WC1B, WC1B 3DY, stands 12 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, WC1B 3HA, stands 21 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 23 m and 26 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 25 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Camden; partly in Islington.

Open WC1B on the map