Elevation of Braintree, England, United Kingdom
Braintree, England, United Kingdom is 64 m (210 ft) above sea level.
Braintree's height from sea level is 64 metres, or 210 feet. GeoNames reads 68 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 64 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 43 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Braintree
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Braintree; the vertical scale is the same on both.
Shading is a north-west light over the grid's own slopes. Colour follows elevation: sea level and below, 0–200 m, 500 m, 1,000 m, 2,000 m, 3,500 m, 5,000 m and above.
Towns near Braintree
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Witham | 10.9 km | SE | 21 m (69 ft) | −43 m |
| Chelmsford | 16.9 km | S | 29 m (95 ft) | −35 m |
| Maldon | 18.5 km | SE | 33 m (108 ft) | −31 m |
| Sudbury | 21.6 km | NE | 31 m (102 ft) | −33 m |
| Colchester | 23.5 km | E | 12 m (39 ft) | −52 m |
Peaks and passes near Braintree
- Castle Camps airfield, hill at 128 m (420 ft), 22.3 km to the NW — 64 m above the town.
- Danbury Ring, hill at 111 m (364 ft), 18.2 km to the S — 47 m above the town.
- Criers Wood, hill at 89 m (292 ft), 14.2 km to the SE — 25 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Braintree is
Latitude 51.880087, longitude 0.5509269. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.
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About this reading
The elevation is the value of the GMTED2010 terrain grid (USGS/NGA, 30 arc-second cells of about 1 km) at Braintree's recorded coordinates. It is the height of the ground in that cell, not of any building; a town on a slope spans several cells, and the range above says how much that matters here. GeoNames' reading of 68 m comes from a finer 90 m SRTM grid at the point it records for the town, which may sit a few hundred metres from ours; the two agreeing to within a few metres is the usual case on flat ground, and a larger gap means the ground is steep.