Elevation of Kirkby, England, United Kingdom

Kirkby, England, United Kingdom is 26 m (85 ft) above sea level.

Kirkby's height from sea level is 26 metres, or 85 feet. GeoNames reads 25 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

12 m – 49 m

Mean 30 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 37 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

559th of 797

among the towns of England, and 674th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

6.6 km to the N, at 25 m, 1 m lower.

Cross-section through Kirkby

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 Kirkby; the vertical scale is the same on both.

7111WE22.9 km
West to east: from 16 m at 11 km west to 34 m at 11 km east.
7111NS22.9 km
North to south: from 18 m at 11 km north to 25 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Kirkby, 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 Kirkby

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Aughton 6.6 kmN 25 m (82 ft) −1 m
Maghull-Lydiate 6.8 kmNW 20 m (66 ft) −6 m
Litherland 7 kmW 25 m (82 ft) −1 m
Prescot 8.2 kmSE 76 m (249 ft) +50 m
Bootle 8.3 kmSW 20 m (66 ft) −6 m

Peaks and passes near Kirkby

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

Where Kirkby is

Latitude 53.48121, longitude -2.891012. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Kirkby elevation: 26 m (85 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 Kirkby'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 25 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.