List of highest points in London

This is a list of the highest natural points within the area of Greater London, England. The list includes all 21 peaks at least 100 metres high.

One is an isolated hill, at Harrow on the Hill – the other 20 summits are clustered on six ridges (escarpments) in London, four of which extend beyond London and are named: Blackheath Ridge, one of the North Weald Ridges, the North Downs ridge and the Grim's Ditch ridge.

The highest point of land, the Westerham Heights, was also higher than any man-made structure in London until 2012, when the tall Shard London Bridge was completed. A further claimant to being the highest point in London is to top of Crystal Palace transmitting station. This tall structure stands upon a rise that is itself high, a combined height of .

List

Rank	Name and location	London borough	OS grid reference	Height
1	Westerham Heights	Bromley	TQ436564 ()
2	Sanderstead Plantation	Croydon	TQ343618 ()
3	Stanmore Hill	Harrow	TQ164934 ()	(499 ft)
4	Big Wood peak, north of Manor Hill/Corrigan Avenue Rec. Ground	Sutton	TQ282598 ()
5	Arkley	Barnet	TQ219956 ()
6	Highwood Hill/Moat Mount, Totteridge Fields	Barnet	TQ218941 ()
7	Harrow Weald Common	Harrow	TQ149931 ()	(475 ft)
8	Hampstead Heath: west of Spaniards Road ‡	Camden	TQ264869 ()
9	Highgate: Gatehouse, North Road to Hillcrest, off the top of North Hill	Haringey	TQ282878 ()
10	Shooter's Hill	Greenwich	TQ438765 ()
11	Pinner Hill	Harrow / Hillingdon	TQ107916 ()	(413 ft)
12	London part of Woodcock Hill, north of Scratchwood	Barnet	TQ201953 ()	(410 ft)
13	Harrow on the Hill (occasionally "Harrow Hill")	Harrow	TQ153874 ()	(408 ft)
14	Bournwell Hill	Barnet / Enfield	TQ256976 ()
15	Sydenham Hill (Crystal Palace)	Lewisham / Southwark	TQ340721 ()
16	Westow Hill (Crystal Palace)	Bromley / Croydon / Lambeth	TQ337707 ()
17	Forest Hill	Lewisham	TQ350735 ()
18	Orange Tree Hill, Havering-atte-Bower	Havering	TQ512930 ()
19	Muswell Hill	Haringey	TQ283896 ()
20	Woodcock Hill, Harefield	Hillingdon	TQ067915 ()	(338 ft)
21	Ferny Hill (Enfield Chase)	Enfield	TQ280979 ()	(334 ft)

‡ this summit in Hampstead Heath is the highest point in Inner London and was the highest point of the former County of London.

Settlements

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Blackheath is a minor ridge after a short dip reaching a peak at Shooter's Hill in the east; here the towers of central Lewisham and Croydon beyond to the south-west (right). The backdrop is the long crest of the North Downs in the far south of Bromley and adjoining Surrey

Grouped by London Borough, South Street, a hamlet in Bromley, is the highest at above sea level. It is at the edge of the Surrey Hills AONB which covers the Surrey part of the North Downs and Greensand Ridge. The six next highest are all near-neighbours: Horns Green (), Berry's Green and Biggin Hill (both reaching ), Aperfield and Single Street (both ), and Luxted at .

Outside Bromley the highest settlements are Sanderstead and Selsdon (reaching and five metres below that, respectively) in Croydon.

Arkley in Barnet is built up to . Lower neighbours are Monken Hadley and Chipping Barnet, both , and Barnet Gate .

The Vale of Health is a micro-locality in Hampstead Heath in Camden at (. Harrow on the Hill in Harrow () and Shooters Hill in Greenwich () also have high positions.

Some have peaks or crests (in the table above) in their definitively built-up area (e.g. Sanderstead, Harrow on the Hill and Shooters Hill). Other settlements with a high central or near-centre elevation (over ) include Upper Sydenham, Upper Norwood, Chislehurst, Highgate, Muswell Hill, Hampstead, Harefield, Northwood, Mill Hill, Whetstone, Stanmore, Carshalton, Coombe, New Addington and Purley.

See also

• List of highest points in the United Kingdom
• List of tallest buildings and structures in London