Elevation of Prescot, England, United Kingdom

Prescot, England, United Kingdom is 76 m (249 ft) above sea level.

Prescot's height from sea level is 76 metres, or 249 feet. GeoNames reads 81 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

14 m – 88 m

Mean 49 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 74 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

303rd of 797

among the towns of England, and 365th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

4.1 km to the SW, at 38 m, 38 m lower.

Cross-section through Prescot

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 Prescot; the vertical scale is the same on both.

91-7WE22.9 km
West to east: from 39 m at 11 km west to 36 m at 11 km east.
91-7NS22.9 km
North to south: from 62 m at 11 km north to 2 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Prescot, 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 Prescot

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Huyton-with-Roby 4.1 kmSW 38 m (125 ft) −38 m
Saint Helens 5.4 kmNE 36 m (118 ft) −40 m
Kirkby 8.2 kmNW 26 m (85 ft) −50 m
Widnes 8.9 kmSE 12 m (39 ft) −64 m
Haydock 10.1 kmNE 54 m (177 ft) −22 m

Peaks and passes near Prescot

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

Where Prescot is

Latitude 53.428674, longitude -2.804564. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Prescot elevation: 76 m (249 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 Prescot'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 81 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.