Elevation of Helston, England, United Kingdom

Helston, England, United Kingdom is 66 m (217 ft) above sea level.

Helston's height from sea level is 66 metres, or 217 feet. GeoNames reads 60 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Hilston.

Ground within 4 km

0 m – 160 m

Mean 76 m across the 8.4 km square centred on the town, 160 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

345th of 797

among the towns of England, and 422nd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Camborne-Redruth

12.4 km to the N, at 108 m, 42 m higher.

Cross-section through Helston

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.6 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Helston; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 36 m at 12 km west to 42 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 99 m at 12 km north to 0 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 50 km around Helston, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 50 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 Helston

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Camborne-Redruth	12.4 km	N	108 m (354 ft)	+42 m
Falmouth	15.9 km	E	3 m (10 ft)	−63 m
Penzance	18.8 km	W	33 m (108 ft)	−33 m
Saint Ives	19 km	NW	19 m (62 ft)	−47 m
Truro	24 km	NE	19 m (62 ft)	−47 m

Peaks and passes near Helston

Carnmenellis, hill at 252 m (827 ft), 9.6 km to the N — 186 m above the town.
Trendrine Hill, hill at 247 m (810 ft), 21.2 km to the NW — 181 m above the town.
Penventon Hill, hill at 243 m (797 ft), 12.4 km to the N — 177 m above the town.

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

Where Helston is

Latitude 50.101593, longitude -5.274996. 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 Helston'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 60 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.