Elevation of Horwich, England, United Kingdom

Horwich, England, United Kingdom is 118 m (387 ft) above sea level.

Horwich's height from sea level is 118 metres, or 387 feet. GeoNames reads 135 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

84 m – 419 m

Mean 167 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 335 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

121st of 797

among the towns of England, and 160th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

5.8 km to the S, at 93 m, 25 m lower.

Cross-section through Horwich

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 Horwich; the vertical scale is the same on both.

3270WE22.9 km
West to east: from 102 m at 11 km west to 109 m at 11 km east.
3270NS22.9 km
North to south: from 112 m at 11 km north to 34 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Horwich, 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 Horwich

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Westhoughton 5.8 kmS 93 m (305 ft) −25 m
Standish 7.5 kmW 110 m (361 ft) −8 m
Hindley 7.5 kmS 41 m (135 ft) −77 m
Chorley 8 kmNW 88 m (289 ft) −30 m
Wigan 8 kmSW 36 m (118 ft) −82 m

Peaks and passes near Horwich

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

Where Horwich is

Latitude 53.598398, longitude -2.554762. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Horwich elevation: 118 m (387 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 Horwich'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 135 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.