Elevation of Poynton, England, United Kingdom

Poynton, England, United Kingdom is 97 m (318 ft) above sea level.

Poynton's height from sea level is 97 metres, or 318 feet. GeoNames reads 97 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

74 m – 245 m

Mean 117 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 171 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

198th of 797

among the towns of England, and 247th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

3.4 km to the N, at 88 m, 9 m lower.

Cross-section through Poynton

Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Poynton; the vertical scale is the same on both.

34839WE23 km
West to east: from 81 m at 12 km west to 221 m at 12 km east.
34839NS23 km
North to south: from 102 m at 12 km north to 204 m at 12 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Poynton, 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 Poynton

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Hazel Grove and Bramhill 3.4 kmN 88 m (289 ft) −9 m
Marple 6.7 kmNE 147 m (482 ft) +50 m
Stockport 6.9 kmN 71 m (233 ft) −26 m
Wilmslow 7.5 kmW 77 m (253 ft) −20 m
Cheadle 8 kmNW 47 m (154 ft) −50 m

Peaks and passes near Poynton

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

Where Poynton is

Latitude 53.348654, longitude -2.121572. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Poynton elevation: 97 m (318 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 Poynton'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 97 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.