Elevation of Castleford, England, United Kingdom
Castleford, England, United Kingdom is 24 m (79 ft) above sea level.
Castleford's height from sea level is 24 metres, or 79 feet. GeoNames reads 15 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 38 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 66 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Castleford
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 Castleford; 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 Castleford
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Featherstone | 3.1 km | SW | 44 m (144 ft) | +20 m |
| Pontefract | 4.3 km | SE | 49 m (161 ft) | +25 m |
| Great Preston-Kippax | 5.1 km | N | 62 m (203 ft) | +38 m |
| Normanton South | 5.3 km | SW | 30 m (98 ft) | +6 m |
| Knottingley | 7 km | E | 22 m (72 ft) | −2 m |
Peaks and passes near Castleford
- Emley Moor, hill at 266 m (873 ft), 24.7 km to the SW — 242 m above the town.
- Pool Hill, hill at 239 m (784 ft), 24.8 km to the SW — 215 m above the town.
- Westgate Hill, hill at 225 m (738 ft), 23.4 km to the W — 201 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Castleford is
Latitude 53.723466, longitude -1.345968. 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 Castleford'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 15 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.