Elevation of Nelson, England, United Kingdom
Nelson, England, United Kingdom is 131 m (430 ft) above sea level.
Nelson's height from sea level is 131 metres, or 430 feet. GeoNames reads 170 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 189 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 253 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Nelson
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 Nelson; 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 Nelson
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brierfield | 1.9 km | SW | 148 m (486 ft) | +17 m |
| Colne | 3.6 km | NE | 154 m (505 ft) | +23 m |
| Burnley | 5.6 km | SW | 151 m (495 ft) | +20 m |
| Padiham | 7.3 km | SW | 102 m (335 ft) | −29 m |
| Barnoldswick | 8.9 km | N | 189 m (620 ft) | +58 m |
Peaks and passes near Nelson
- Pendle Hill, hill at 557 m (1,827 ft), 6.4 km to the NW — 426 m above the town.
- Boulsworth Hill, hill at 517 m (1,696 ft), 8.8 km to the SE — 386 m above the town.
- Totridge, hill at 496 m (1,627 ft), 24.7 km to the NW — 365 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Nelson is
Latitude 53.835187, longitude -2.219377. 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 Nelson'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 170 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.