Elevation of Heywood, England, United Kingdom

Heywood, England, United Kingdom is 115 m (377 ft) above sea level.

Heywood's height from sea level is 115 metres, or 377 feet. GeoNames reads 121 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 121 m.

Ground within 4 km

89 m – 292 m

Mean 152 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 203 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

128th of 797

among the towns of England, and 168th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

4.7 km to the W, at 96 m, 19 m lower.

Cross-section through Heywood

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 Heywood; the vertical scale is the same on both.

48710WE22.9 km
West to east: from 161 m at 11 km west to 186 m at 11 km east.
48710NS22.9 km
North to south: from 329 m at 11 km north to 43 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Heywood, 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 Heywood

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Bury 4.7 kmW 96 m (315 ft) −19 m
Rochdale 4.8 kmNE 137 m (449 ft) +22 m
Middleton 5.4 kmS 89 m (292 ft) −26 m
Whitefield 6.6 kmSW 108 m (354 ft) −7 m
Royton 7.4 kmE 167 m (548 ft) +52 m

Peaks and passes near Heywood

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

Where Heywood is

Latitude 53.592628, longitude -2.22565. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Heywood elevation: 115 m (377 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 Heywood'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 121 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.