Elevation of Brierfield, England, United Kingdom

Brierfield, England, United Kingdom is 148 m (486 ft) above sea level.

Brierfield's height from sea level is 148 metres, or 486 feet. GeoNames reads 156 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

95 m – 299 m

Mean 172 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 204 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

61st of 797

among the towns of England, and 87th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

1.9 km to the NE, at 131 m, 17 m lower.

Cross-section through Brierfield

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 22.9 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Brierfield; the vertical scale is the same on both.

44288WE22.9 km
West to east: from 131 m at 11 km west to 417 m at 11 km east.
44288NS22.9 km
North to south: from 131 m at 11 km north to 261 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Brierfield, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid
Relief, 48 km across, north up; the ring marks the town.

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 Brierfield

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nelson 1.9 kmNE 131 m (430 ft) −17 m
Burnley 3.8 kmS 151 m (495 ft) +3 m
Colne 5.4 kmNE 154 m (505 ft) +6 m
Padiham 5.6 kmSW 102 m (335 ft) −46 m
Barnoldswick 10.7 kmN 189 m (620 ft) +41 m

Peaks and passes near Brierfield

Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.

Where Brierfield is

Latitude 53.821604, longitude -2.2367309. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Brierfield elevation: 148 m (486 ft) above sea level

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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 Brierfield'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 156 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.