Elevation of Buxton, England, United Kingdom
Buxton, England, United Kingdom is 310 m (1,017 ft) above sea level.
Buxton's height from sea level is 310 metres, or 1,017 feet. GeoNames reads 316 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 373 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 286 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Buxton
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Buxton; 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 Buxton
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New Mills | 12.8 km | NW | 157 m (515 ft) | −153 m |
| Macclesfield | 13.6 km | W | 139 m (456 ft) | −171 m |
| Poynton | 17 km | NW | 97 m (318 ft) | −213 m |
| Leek | 18.2 km | SW | 190 m (623 ft) | −120 m |
| Marple | 18.2 km | NW | 147 m (482 ft) | −163 m |
Peaks and passes near Buxton
- Kinder Scout, peak at 636 m (2,087 ft), 14.3 km to the N — 326 m above the town.
- Higher Shelf Stones, hill at 622 m (2,041 ft), 21.4 km to the N — 312 m above the town.
- Brown Knoll, hill at 569 m (1,867 ft), 11.8 km to the N — 259 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Buxton is
Latitude 53.259082, longitude -1.91483. 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 Buxton'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 316 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.