Elevation of Lichfield, England, United Kingdom

Lichfield, England, United Kingdom is 87 m (285 ft) above sea level.

Lichfield's height from sea level is 87 metres, or 285 feet. GeoNames reads 87 m at the same point (SRTM); Wikidata records 81 m.

Ground within 4 km

66 m – 123 m

Mean 93 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 57 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

240th of 797

among the towns of England, and 293rd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

6.1 km to the W, at 170 m, 83 m higher.

Cross-section through Lichfield

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.1 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Lichfield; the vertical scale is the same on both.

18145WE23.1 km
West to east: from 163 m at 12 km west to 64 m at 12 km east.
18145NS23.1 km
North to south: from 102 m at 12 km north to 134 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Lichfield, 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 Lichfield

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Burntwood 6.1 kmW 170 m (558 ft) +83 m
Brownhills 7.8 kmSW 153 m (502 ft) +66 m
Aldridge 10.1 kmSW 165 m (541 ft) +78 m
Tamworth 10.9 kmSE 67 m (220 ft) −20 m
Pelsall 11 kmSW 148 m (486 ft) +61 m

Peaks and passes near Lichfield

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

Where Lichfield is

Latitude 52.681602, longitude -1.831672. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Lichfield elevation: 87 m (285 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 Lichfield'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 87 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.