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London

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 42 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

Lincolnshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 28 m

Farnham

United Kingdom > England > Surrey > Waverley

Farnham lies in the valley of the North Branch of the River Wey, which rises near Alton, merges with the South Branch at Tilford, and joins the River Thames at Weybridge. The mainly east-west alignment of the ridges and valleys has influenced the development of road and rail communications. The most prominent…

Average elevation: 100 m

Basingstoke

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Basingstoke and Deane

Situated in a valley through the Hampshire Downs at an average elevation of 88 metres (289 ft) Basingstoke is a major interchange between Reading, Newbury, Andover, Winchester, and Alton, and lies on the natural trade route between the southwest of England and London. The area had been something of an…

Average elevation: 110 m

Oxfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 113 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

Essex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 44 m

Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 39 m

Durham

United Kingdom > England > County Durham

Average elevation: 119 m

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Scotland accounts for just under a third (32 per cent) of the total area of the UK, covering 78,772 square kilometres (30,410 sq mi). This includes nearly eight hundred islands, predominantly west and north of the mainland; notably the Hebrides, Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands. Scotland is the most…

Average elevation: 79 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

Hertfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Elevations are higher in the north and west, reaching more than 800 feet (240 m) in the Chilterns near Tring. The county centres on the headwaters and upper valleys of the rivers Lea and the Colne; both flow south, and each is accompanied by a canal. Hertfordshire's undeveloped land is mainly agricultural,…

Average elevation: 82 m

Somerset

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 87 m

Leeds

United Kingdom > England

Lying in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, there is a significant variation in elevation within the city's built-up area. The district ranges from 1,115 feet (340 m) in the far west on the slopes of Ilkley Moor to about 33 feet (10 m) where the rivers Aire and Wharfe cross the eastern boundary. Land rises…

Average elevation: 94 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

Upper Stoke

United Kingdom > England > Medway

Average elevation: 14 m

Chelsfield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 117 m

St Albans

United Kingdom > England > Hertfordshire > St Albans

St Albans was an ancient borough created following the dissolution of the monastery in 1539. It consisted of the ancient parish of St Albans (also known as the Abbey parish) and parts of St Michael and St Peter. The municipal corporation was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the boundary was…

Average elevation: 100 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

City of London

United Kingdom > England > City of London > City of London

The elevation of the City ranges from sea level at the Thames to 21.6 metres (71 ft) at the junction of High Holborn and Chancery Lane. Two small but notable hills are within the historic core, Ludgate Hill to the west and Cornhill to the east. Between them ran the Walbrook, one of the many "lost" rivers or…

Average elevation: 42 m

Oswaldtwistle

United Kingdom > England > Lancashire > Hyndburn

Average elevation: 203 m

Vigo Village

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Gravesham

Average elevation: 144 m

Low Ackworth

United Kingdom > England > Wakefield

Average elevation: 41 m

Abergavenny

United Kingdom > Wales > Monmouthshire

Average elevation: 187 m

Newbridge

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > New Forest

Average elevation: 33 m

Little Parrock

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Wealden

Average elevation: 93 m

Blea Tarn

United Kingdom > England > Cumberland > Boot > Beckfoot

Blea Tarn is a lake in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the English Lake District, located about half a mile north of Beckfoot. Located at an elevation of 217 m (712 ft), the lake has an area of 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres) and measures 277 m × 150 m (909 ft × 492 ft), with a maximum depth of 11 m (36 ft).

Average elevation: 144 m

North Rona

United Kingdom > Scotland > Western Isles

Rona (Scottish Gaelic: Rònaigh) is an uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. It is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from the island of South Rona in the Inner Hebrides. It has an area of 109 hectares (270 acres) and a maximum elevation of 108 metres (354 ft).

Average elevation: 4 m

Mote Park

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Maidstone > Otham

Average elevation: 52 m

Aston's Eyot

United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire > Oxford

Average elevation: 63 m

North Yorkshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 153 m

West Yorkshire

United Kingdom > England

Wakefield's Parish Church was raised to cathedral status in 1888 and after the elevation of Wakefield to diocese, Wakefield Council immediately sought city status and this was granted in July 1888. However the industrial revolution, which changed West and South Yorkshire significantly, led to the growth of…

Average elevation: 172 m

Hampshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 73 m

Cambridgeshire

United Kingdom > England

Cambridgeshire has a maritime temperate climate which is broadly similar to the rest of the United Kingdom, though it is drier than the UK average due to its low altitude and easterly location, the prevailing southwesterly winds having already deposited moisture on higher ground further west. Average winter…

Average elevation: 32 m

Devon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 94 m

Sheldon

United Kingdom > England > Devon > East Devon > Sheldon

Average elevation: 226 m

East Kilbride

United Kingdom > Scotland > East Kilbride

Average elevation: 177 m

Bedford

United Kingdom > England > Bedford

As with the rest of the United Kingdom, Bedford has a maritime climate, with a limited range of temperatures, and generally even rainfall throughout the year. The nearest Met Office weather station to Bedford is Bedford (Thurleigh) airport, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Bedford town centre at an elevation…

Average elevation: 37 m

Malvern

United Kingdom > England > Worcestershire > Malvern Hills

Malvern lies in the Lower Severn/Avon plain affording it a degree of shelter caused by virtue of its nestling in between the Cotswold hills to the east, the Welsh Hills and Mountains to the west, and Birmingham plateau to the north. Although as with all the British Isles it has a maritime climate, the local…

Average elevation: 95 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

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

Richmond

United Kingdom > England > London

The town centre lies just below 33 ft (10m) above sea level. South of the town centre, rising from Richmond Bridge to an elevation of 165 ft (50m), is Richmond Hill. Just beyond the summit of Richmond Hill is Richmond Park, an area of 2,360 acres (9.55 km2; 3.7 sq mi) of wild heath and woodland originally…

Average elevation: 17 m

Clydau

United Kingdom > Wales > Pembrokeshire

Average elevation: 156 m

Hickstead

United Kingdom > England > West Sussex > Mid Sussex

Average elevation: 21 m

Poulner

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > New Forest

Average elevation: 35 m

Hebden Bridge

United Kingdom > England > Calderdale

Average elevation: 277 m

Golan

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Average elevation: 143 m

Broomfield

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Maidstone > Leeds

Average elevation: 96 m

Calveley

United Kingdom > England > Cheshire East

Average elevation: 58 m

Keswick

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > South Norfolk

Average elevation: 23 m

Wimbledon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 26 m

Thwaite

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 417 m

Budock Water

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 64 m

Acharacle

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Average elevation: 46 m

Salisbury

United Kingdom > England > Salisbury

Bishop of Salisbury Hubert Walter was instrumental in the negotiations with Saladin during the Third Crusade, but he spent little time in his diocese prior to his elevation to archbishop of Canterbury. The brothers Herbert and Richard Poore succeeded him and began planning the relocation of the cathedral into…

Average elevation: 96 m

Tuttington

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > Broadland

Average elevation: 16 m

Redpost

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Doublebois

Average elevation: 140 m

Worsbrough

United Kingdom > England > Barnsley

On High Street, Worsbrough Dale. The east elevation bears the inscriptions "AD 1903" and "Ebenezer Wesleyan Reform". There are also foundation stones either side of the doorway inscribed with "EBENEZER CHAPEL 1854". This suggests that the chapel was built in 1854 and extended upwards in 1903.

Average elevation: 98 m

Trevilley

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Sennen

Average elevation: 60 m

Brighton

United Kingdom > England > Brighton and Hove

Average elevation: 64 m

City of Bristol

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 80 m

Northamptonshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 97 m

Dorset

United Kingdom > England > Talbot Village

Average elevation: 57 m

Colchester

United Kingdom > England > Essex

Average elevation: 28 m

Gloucestershire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 99 m

East Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 43 m

Salford

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 52 m

Hoe

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > Breckland District > Hoe

Average elevation: 44 m

South Norfolk

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk

Average elevation: 28 m

Northfleet

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Gravesham

Average elevation: 33 m

Shetland

United Kingdom > Scotland

Walter Scott's 1822 novel The Pirate is set in "a remote part of Shetland", and was inspired by his 1814 visit to the islands. The name Jarlshof meaning "Earl's Mansion" is a coinage of his. Robert Cowie, a doctor born in Lerwick published the 1874 work.Shetland: Descriptive and Historical; Being a Graduation…

Average elevation: 4 m

Eynsford

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Sevenoaks > Eynsford

Average elevation: 104 m

Cossington

United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire > Charnwood > Syston

Average elevation: 61 m

Castle Hedingham

United Kingdom > England > Braintree

Average elevation: 68 m

Awbridge

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Test Valley

Average elevation: 43 m

Salford

United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire > West Oxfordshire

Average elevation: 171 m

Tawstock

United Kingdom > England > Devon > North Devon > Eastacombe

Average elevation: 65 m

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