Elevation of Gelligaer, Wales, United Kingdom
Gelligaer, Wales, United Kingdom is 224 m (735 ft) above sea level.
Gelligaer's height from sea level is 224 metres, or 735 feet. GeoNames reads 233 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 226 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 284 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Gelligaer
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Gelligaer; 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 Gelligaer
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bargoed | 2.7 km | NE | 195 m (640 ft) | −29 m |
| Treharris-Nelson | 3.8 km | W | 141 m (463 ft) | −83 m |
| Blackwood | 3.9 km | E | 182 m (597 ft) | −42 m |
| Oakdale-Pontllanfraith | 5.3 km | E | 230 m (755 ft) | +6 m |
| Mountain Ash-Abercynon | 5.7 km | W | 99 m (325 ft) | −125 m |
Peaks and passes near Gelligaer
- Waun Rydd, hill at 769 m (2,523 ft), 24.8 km to the N — 545 m above the town.
- Allt Lwyd, hill at 653 m (2,142 ft), 22.7 km to the N — 429 m above the town.
- Cefn yr Ystrad, hill at 617 m (2,024 ft), 17.5 km to the N — 393 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Gelligaer is
Latitude 51.664336, longitude -3.251143. 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 Gelligaer'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 233 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.