Elevation of Rawtenstall, England, United Kingdom

Rawtenstall, England, United Kingdom is 205 m (673 ft) above sea level.

Rawtenstall's height from sea level is 205 metres, or 673 feet. GeoNames reads 171 m at the same point (SRTM).

Ground within 4 km

138 m – 460 m

Mean 276 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 322 m from its lowest cell to its highest.

Rank by elevation

11th of 797

among the towns of England, and 18th of 997 in United Kingdom.

Nearest town

2.6 km to the W, at 223 m, 18 m higher.

Cross-section through Rawtenstall

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 Rawtenstall; the vertical scale is the same on both.

44049WE22.9 km
West to east: from 284 m at 11 km west to 413 m at 11 km east.
44049NS22.9 km
North to south: from 174 m at 11 km north to 77 m at 11 km south.
Shaded relief of the 48 km around Rawtenstall, 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 Rawtenstall

TownDistanceDirectionElevationCompared
Haslingden 2.6 kmW 223 m (732 ft) +18 m
Bacup 6 kmE 291 m (955 ft) +86 m
Ramsbottom 6 kmS 160 m (525 ft) −45 m
Accrington 8 kmNW 141 m (463 ft) −64 m
Oswaldwistle 9 kmNW 151 m (495 ft) −54 m

Peaks and passes near Rawtenstall

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

Where Rawtenstall is

Latitude 53.699568, longitude -2.291167. Open the map here to read the elevation of any point around the town.

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Rawtenstall elevation: 205 m (673 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 Rawtenstall'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 171 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.