WC2A: 7.9 m clear of the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers

WC2A on the relief of London, with a tide staff: 7.9 m above the 1953 tide, the highest in the ledgers.

The lowest postcode in WC2A, WC2A 2LL, stands 7.9 m above the highest tide in the London Bridge ledgers (5.41 m, 1 February 1953). The highest, WC2A 3HP, stands 18 m above it.

Ground at eight in ten of its postcodes: between 17 m and 22 m, measured from Ordnance Datum; the middle one stands at 19 m.
None lies in the Environment Agency's Flood Zone 3 from the sea.
Mostly in Camden; partly in Westminster.

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