Elevation of Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom
Barnstaple, England, United Kingdom is 13 m (43 ft) above sea level.
Barnstaple's height from sea level is 13 metres, or 43 feet. GeoNames reads 12 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 71 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 184 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Barnstaple
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.4 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Barnstaple; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Barnstaple
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Braunton | 7.9 km | NW | 10 m (33 ft) | −3 m |
| Bideford | 12.4 km | SW | 7 m (23 ft) | −6 m |
| Ilfracombe | 14.9 km | N | 45 m (148 ft) | +32 m |
Peaks and passes near Barnstaple
- Five Barrows Hill, hill at 493 m (1,617 ft), 17.7 km to the E — 480 m above the town.
- Chains Barrow, hill at 487 m (1,598 ft), 19.6 km to the NE — 474 m above the town.
- Shoulsbarrow Common, hill at 476 m (1,562 ft), 16.3 km to the NE — 463 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Barnstaple is
Latitude 51.0781599, longitude -4.058338. 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 Barnstaple'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 12 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.