Elevation of Pontypool, Wales, United Kingdom

Pontypool, Wales, United Kingdom is 164 m (538 ft) above sea level.

Pontypool's height from sea level is 164 metres, or 538 feet. GeoNames reads 173 m at the same point (SRTM).

Also written: Pontypwl Pont-y-p?l.

Ground within 4 km

72 m – 454 m

Mean 247 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 382 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

13th of 67

among the towns of Wales, and 52nd of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

Monmouth

4.6 km to the SE, at 102 m, 62 m lower.

Cross-section through Pontypool

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.3 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Pontypool; the vertical scale is the same on both.

West to east: from 337 m at 12 km west to 67 m at 12 km east.

North to south: from 57 m at 12 km north to 30 m at 12 km south.

Shaded relief of the 49 km around Pontypool, drawn from the GMTED2010 grid — Relief, 49 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 Pontypool

Town	Distance	Direction	Elevation	Compared
Monmouth	4.6 km	SE	102 m (335 ft)	−62 m
Cwmbran	6.1 km	S	59 m (194 ft)	−105 m
Abertillery	7.1 km	NW	249 m (817 ft)	+85 m
Abercarn-Newbridge	8.6 km	SW	104 m (341 ft)	−60 m
Oakdale-Pontllanfraith	9.4 km	W	230 m (755 ft)	+66 m

Peaks and passes near Pontypool

Pen Allt-mawr, hill at 720 m (2,362 ft), 24.7 km to the N — 556 m above the town.
Pen Cerrig-calch, hill at 701 m (2,300 ft), 22.6 km to the N — 537 m above the town.
Cefn yr Ystrad, hill at 617 m (2,024 ft), 23.1 km to the NW — 453 m above the town.

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

Where Pontypool is

Latitude 51.700369, longitude -3.045268. 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 Pontypool'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 173 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.