Elevation of Dorchester, England, United Kingdom
Dorchester, England, United Kingdom is 70 m (230 ft) above sea level.
Dorchester's height from sea level is 70 metres, or 230 feet. GeoNames reads 55 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 55 m.
Ground within 4 km
Mean 88 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 89 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Dorchester
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Dorchester; 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 Dorchester
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weymouth | 10.8 km | S | 3 m (10 ft) | −67 m |
| Bridport | 22.5 km | W | 28 m (92 ft) | −42 m |
| Blandford Forum | 25.3 km | NE | 37 m (121 ft) | −33 m |
| Sherborne | 26.8 km | N | 63 m (207 ft) | −7 m |
| Yeovil | 29 km | NW | 57 m (187 ft) | −13 m |
Peaks and passes near Dorchester
- Bulbarrow Hill, hill at 274 m (899 ft), 17.7 km to the NE — 204 m above the town.
- Telegraph Hill, hill at 267 m (876 ft), 15.4 km to the N — 197 m above the town.
- Lyscombe Hill, hill at 263 m (863 ft), 13.4 km to the N — 193 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Dorchester is
Latitude 50.7111639, longitude -2.441181. 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 Dorchester'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 55 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. Wikidata's figure is the one its editors cite for the town, often from a survey marker or the town hall.