Elevation of Oswestry, England, United Kingdom

Oswestry, England, United Kingdom is 125 m (410 ft) above sea level.

Oswestry's height from sea level is 125 metres, or 410 feet. GeoNames reads 136 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

72 m – 315 m

Mean 141 m across the 8.2 km square centred on the town, 243 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

104th of 797

among the towns of England, and 141st of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

17.3 km to the N, at 169 m, 44 m higher.

Cross-section through Oswestry

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 Oswestry; the vertical scale is the same on both.

34140WE23.1 km
West to east: from 239 m at 12 km west to 80 m at 12 km east.
34140NS23.1 km
North to south: from 112 m at 12 km north to 61 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Oswestry, 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 Oswestry

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Rhosllanerchrugog (Wales) 17.3 kmN 169 m (554 ft) +44 m
Wrexham (Wales) 21.1 kmN 87 m (285 ft) −38 m
Brymbo-Gwersyllt (Wales) 24.5 kmN 95 m (312 ft) −30 m
Shrewsbury 26.4 kmSE 63 m (207 ft) −62 m
Whitchurch 28 kmNE 102 m (335 ft) −23 m

Peaks and passes near Oswestry

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

Where Oswestry is

Latitude 52.857148, longitude -3.056412. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Oswestry elevation: 125 m (410 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 Oswestry'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 136 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.