Elevation of Glossop, England, United Kingdom

Glossop, England, United Kingdom is 170 m (558 ft) above sea level.

Glossop's height from sea level is 170 metres, or 558 feet. GeoNames reads 156 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Glossop-Hollingworth Glossop Hollingworth.

Ground within 4 km

130 m – 513 m

Mean 280 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 383 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

28th of 797

among the towns of England, and 44th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

2.8 km to the N, at 360 m, 190 m higher.

Cross-section through Glossop

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 Glossop; the vertical scale is the same on both.

59099WE22.9 km
West to east: from 133 m at 11 km west to 509 m at 11 km east.
59099NS22.9 km
North to south: from 433 m at 11 km north to 231 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Glossop, 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 Glossop

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Longdendale 2.8 kmN 360 m (1,181 ft) +190 m
Stalybridge 8.3 kmNW 128 m (420 ft) −42 m
Hyde 9.1 kmW 109 m (358 ft) −61 m
Marple 9.2 kmSW 147 m (482 ft) −23 m
New Mills 9.7 kmS 157 m (515 ft) −13 m

Peaks and passes near Glossop

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

Where Glossop is

Latitude 53.442579, longitude -1.94604. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Glossop elevation: 170 m (558 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 Glossop'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 156 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.