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England topographic map

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Name: England topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: England, United Kingdom (49.67400 -6.70475 55.91700 2.09191)

Average elevation: 55 m

Minimum elevation: -3 m

Maximum elevation: 966 m

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London

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 42 m

Scotland

United Kingdom

A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstones found principally along the Moray Firth coast. The Highlands are generally mountainous and the highest elevations in the British Isles are found here. Scotland has over 790 islands divided into four main groups: Shetland,…

Average elevation: 36 m

London

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 66 m

Nottingham

United Kingdom > England > Nottinghamshire

Average elevation: 56 m

Sheffield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 168 m

Wales

United Kingdom

Much of Wales' diverse landscape is mountainous, particularly in the north and central regions. The mountains were shaped during the last ice age, the Devensian glaciation. The highest mountains in Wales are in Snowdonia (Eryri), of which five are over 1,000 m (3,300 ft). The highest of these is Snowdon (Yr…

Average elevation: 99 m

Northern Ireland

United Kingdom

Average elevation: 79 m

Devon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 94 m

Norfolk

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 23 m

Cornwall

United Kingdom > England

The interior of the county consists of a roughly east–west spine of infertile and exposed upland, with a series of granite intrusions, such as Bodmin Moor, which contains the highest land within Cornwall. From east to west, and with approximately descending altitude, these are Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow north…

Average elevation: 55 m

Chelmsford

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 54 m

Leeds

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 96 m

Torquay

United Kingdom > England > Torbay

Average elevation: 31 m

Glasgow

United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow City

Glasgow itself was reputed to have been founded by the Christian missionary Saint Mungo in the 6th century. He established a church on the Molendinar Burn, where the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre. Glasgow grew over the following centuries. The…

Average elevation: 128 m

Cambrian Mountains

United Kingdom > Wales > Powys

Average elevation: 319 m

Dumfries and Galloway

United Kingdom > Scotland

Average elevation: 163 m

Great Britain

United Kingdom

Average elevation: 52 m

Lincoln

United Kingdom > England > Lincolnshire

Lincoln lies 157 mi (253 km) north of London, at an altitude of 67 ft (20.4 m) by the River Witham up to 246 ft (75.0 m) on Castle Hill. It fills a gap in the Lincoln Cliff escarpment, which runs north and south through central Lincolnshire, with altitudes up to 200 feet (61 metres). The city lies on the River…

Average elevation: 29 m

Bath

United Kingdom > England > Bath and North East Somerset

Bath is in the Avon Valley and is surrounded by limestone hills as it is near the southern edge of the Cotswolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the limestone Mendip Hills rise around 7 miles (11 km) south of the city. The hills that surround and make up the city have a maximum altitude…

Average elevation: 100 m

Exeter

United Kingdom > England > Devon

The city of Exeter was established on the eastern bank of the River Exe on a ridge of land backed by a steep hill. It is at this point that the Exe, having just been joined by the River Creedy, opens onto a wide flood plain and estuary which results in quite common flooding. Historically this was the lowest…

Average elevation: 56 m

Preston

United Kingdom > England > Lancashire

Average elevation: 58 m

Norwich

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk

Average elevation: 28 m

Cambridge

United Kingdom > England > Cambridge

The city, like most of the UK, has a maritime climate highly influenced by the Gulf Stream. Located in the driest region of Britain, Cambridge's rainfall averages around 570 mm (22.44 in) per year, around half the national average, with some years occasionally falling into the semi-arid (under 500 mm (19.69…

Average elevation: 18 m

Colchester

United Kingdom > England > Essex

Average elevation: 28 m

Coventry

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 99 m

Bristol

United Kingdom > England > City of Bristol

Average elevation: 55 m

Leeds

United Kingdom > England > Leeds

Leeds is located 169 miles (272 km) north-northwest of London, on the valley of the River Aire in the eastern foothills of the Pennines. The city centre lies in a narrow section of the Aire Valley at about 206 feet (63 m) above sea level; while the district ranges from 1,115 feet (340 m) in the far west on the…

Average elevation: 94 m

Suffolk

United Kingdom > England

The west of the county lies on more resistant Cretaceous chalk. This chalk is responsible for a sweeping tract of largely downland landscapes that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east and north through East Anglia to the Yorkshire Wolds. The chalk is less easily eroded so forms…

Average elevation: 35 m

Surrey

United Kingdom > England > Surrey

The highest elevation in Surrey is Leith Hill near Dorking. It is 295 m (968 ft) above sea level and is the second highest point in southeastern England after Walbury Hill in West Berkshire which is 297 m (974 ft).

Average elevation: 69 m

Oxford

United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire

Average elevation: 81 m

Eastbourne

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex

Average elevation: 36 m

Birmingham

United Kingdom > England

Birmingham is a snowy city relative to other large UK conurbations, due to its inland location and comparatively high elevation. Between 1961 and 1990 Birmingham Airport averaged 13.0 days of snow lying annually, compared to 5.33 at London Heathrow. Snow showers often pass through the city via the Cheshire gap…

Average elevation: 138 m

Plymouth

United Kingdom > England > Devon > Plymouth

The River Plym, which flows off Dartmoor to the north-east, forms a smaller estuary to the east of the city called Cattewater. Plymouth Sound is protected from the sea by the Plymouth Breakwater, in use since 1814. In the Sound is Drake's Island which is seen from Plymouth Hoe, a flat public area on top of…

Average elevation: 81 m

Skirling

United Kingdom > Scotland > Scottish Borders

Average elevation: 249 m

South West England

United Kingdom

Inland areas of low altitude experience the least amount of precipitation. They experience the highest summer maxima temperatures, but winter minima are colder than the coast. Snowfalls are more frequent in comparison to the coast, but less so in comparison to higher ground. It experiences the lowest wind…

Average elevation: 68 m

Hampshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 73 m

Redditch

United Kingdom > England > Worcestershire

Average elevation: 99 m

Canterbury

United Kingdom > England > Kent

Average elevation: 51 m

Peterborough

United Kingdom > England > City of Peterborough

The local topography is flat, and in some places, the land lies below sea level, for example in parts of the Fens to the east and to the south of Peterborough. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre,…

Average elevation: 17 m

Kent

United Kingdom > England

Kent was also the location of the largest number of art schools in the country during the nineteenth century, estimated by the art historian David Haste, to approach two hundred. This is believed to be the result of Kent being a front line county during the Napoleonic Wars. At this time, before the invention…

Average elevation: 37 m

St Neots

United Kingdom > England > Huntingdonshire > St Neots

Average elevation: 23 m

Portsmouth

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Portsmouth

By road, Portsmouth lies 73.5 miles (118.3 km) from Central London, 49.5 miles (79.7 km) west of Brighton, and 22.3 miles (35.9 km) east of Southampton. Portsmouth is situated primarily on Portsea Island and is the United Kingdom's only island city, although parts of it have expanded onto the mainland. Gosport…

Average elevation: 28 m

Kent

United Kingdom > England > Sevenoaks

Average elevation: 37 m

Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 39 m

South East England

United Kingdom > England

Near Weybridge are the UK headquarters of Sony with SSP Group (situated in Byfleet) and Procter & Gamble (next door to each other on The Heights Business Park near the former Brooklands racing circuit) with Kia Motors UK and Petroleum Geo-Services UK, and Gallaher Group (cigarettes) is to the north, next to…

Average elevation: 69 m

West Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 52 m

Alton

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > East Hampshire

Average elevation: 135 m

Glastonbury

United Kingdom > England > Glastonbury

Average elevation: 14 m

Winchester

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire

Average elevation: 73 m

Edinburgh

United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh

Some have called Edinburgh the Athens of the North for a variety of reasons. The earliest comparison between the two cities showed that they had a similar topography, with the Castle Rock of Edinburgh performing a similar role to the Athenian Acropolis. Both of them had flatter, fertile agricultural land…

Average elevation: 104 m

Grwyne Fawr Reservoir

United Kingdom > Wales > Powys

By the end of the 19th-century there were serious water shortages in the western parts of the historic county of Monmouthshire. The area had seen a massive population increase as a result of the steel and coal industries but the supply of water to the area was complicated due to its high altitude. A site for a…

Average elevation: 619 m

Carsehill

United Kingdom > Scotland > Moray > Alves

Average elevation: 36 m

Greenwich

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 20 m

Greater Manchester

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 141 m

Braintree

United Kingdom > England > Essex

Average elevation: 66 m

Aberdeen

United Kingdom > Scotland > Aberdeen

Two weather stations collect climate data for the area, Aberdeen/Dyce Airport, and Craibstone. Both are about 4 1⁄2 miles (7 km) to the north west of the city centre, and given that they are in close proximity to each other, exhibit very similar climatic regimes. Dyce tends to have marginally warmer daytime…

Average elevation: 52 m

Durham

United Kingdom > England > County Durham

Average elevation: 119 m

East of England

United Kingdom > England

The East of England region has the lowest elevation range in the UK. Twenty percent of the region is below mean sea level, most of this in North Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and on the Essex Coast. Most of the remaining area is of low elevation, with extensive glacial deposits. The Fens, a large area of reclaimed…

Average elevation: 39 m

Basildon

United Kingdom > England > Essex

Average elevation: 34 m

Somerset

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 87 m

Retford

United Kingdom > England > Nottinghamshire > Bassetlaw

In 1831, the Gas Works was built by James Malam and gaslights were lit in the town for the first time on 22 December 1831. The Square was lit by a cast iron light bearing five gas lamps at that time. The Gas Works became a target on 2 September 1916 when a German Zeppelin dropped 14 bombs on Retford. The…

Average elevation: 31 m

Cardiff

United Kingdom > Wales > Cardiff

Average elevation: 55 m

Bromley

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 62 m

Liverpool

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 26 m

Dundee

United Kingdom > Scotland > Dundee City

Dundee sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay on the eastern, North Sea Coast of Scotland. The city lies 36.1 miles (58 km) NNE of Edinburgh and 360.6 miles (580 km) NNW of London. The built-up area occupies a roughly rectangular shape 8.3 miles (13 km) long by 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, aligned in an east to…

Average elevation: 82 m

Fordham

United Kingdom > England > Colchester

Average elevation: 44 m

Chapelthorpe

United Kingdom > England > Wakefield

Average elevation: 61 m

St. Buryan

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 101 m

Dunure

United Kingdom > Scotland > South Ayrshire

Average elevation: 69 m

Ponts Mill

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > St Blazey

Average elevation: 82 m

Dorset

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 56 m

Bury

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 150 m

North West England

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 118 m

Borough of Fylde

United Kingdom > England > Lancashire

Average elevation: 13 m

Lake District National Park

United Kingdom > England

The Lake District is a roughly circular upland massif, deeply dissected by a broadly radial pattern of major valleys which are largely the result of repeated glaciations over the last 2 million years. The apparent radial pattern is not from a central dome, but from an axial watershed extending from St Bees…

Average elevation: 206 m

Dowland

United Kingdom > England > Devon > Torridge District

Average elevation: 114 m

Slapton

United Kingdom > England > Buckinghamshire

Average elevation: 93 m

Oxfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 113 m

Wiltshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 115 m

Scafell Pike

United Kingdom > England > Cumberland

Scafell Pike (/ˈskɔːfɛl paɪk/) is the highest and the most prominent mountain in England, at an elevation of 978 metres (3,209 ft) above sea level. It is located in the Lake District National Park, in Cumbria, and is part of the Southern Fells and the Scafell massif.

Average elevation: 679 m

Derbyshire

United Kingdom > England

Due to its central location in England and altitude range from 27 metres in the south to 636 metres in the north, Derbyshire contains many species at the edge of their UK distribution ranges. Some species with a predominantly northern British distribution are at the southern limit of their range, whilst others…

Average elevation: 144 m

Wirral

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 21 m