Elevation of Colne, England, United Kingdom

Colne, England, United Kingdom is 154 m (505 ft) above sea level.

Colne's height from sea level is 154 metres, or 505 feet. GeoNames reads 191 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

121 m – 361 m

Mean 221 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 240 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

50th of 797

among the towns of England, and 74th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

3.6 km to the SW, at 131 m, 23 m lower.

Cross-section through Colne

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 Colne; the vertical scale is the same on both.

427113WE22.9 km
West to east: from 388 m at 11 km west to 398 m at 11 km east.
427113NS22.9 km
North to south: from 198 m at 11 km north to 405 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Colne, 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 Colne

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Nelson 3.6 kmSW 131 m (430 ft) −23 m
Brierfield 5.4 kmSW 148 m (486 ft) −6 m
Barnoldswick 6.4 kmN 189 m (620 ft) +35 m
Burnley 9 kmSW 151 m (495 ft) −3 m
Padiham 10.9 kmSW 102 m (335 ft) −52 m

Peaks and passes near Colne

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

Where Colne is

Latitude 53.85564, longitude -2.176991. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Colne elevation: 154 m (505 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 Colne'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 191 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.