Elevation of Shaw, England, United Kingdom
Shaw, England, United Kingdom is 181 m (594 ft) above sea level.
Shaw's height from sea level is 181 metres, or 594 feet. GeoNames reads 245 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 229 m across the 8.1 km square centred on the town, 233 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Shaw
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 Shaw; the vertical scale is the same on both.
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 Shaw
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Royton | 2.4 km | SW | 167 m (548 ft) | −14 m |
| Milnrow | 3.8 km | NW | 159 m (522 ft) | −22 m |
| Oldham | 4.3 km | SW | 194 m (636 ft) | +13 m |
| Chadderton | 5.1 km | SW | 140 m (459 ft) | −41 m |
| Rochdale | 6 km | NW | 137 m (449 ft) | −44 m |
Peaks and passes near Shaw
- Higher Shelf Stones, hill at 622 m (2,041 ft), 20.7 km to the SE — 441 m above the town.
- Mill Hill, hill at 544 m (1,785 ft), 22.4 km to the SE — 363 m above the town.
- Featherbed Top, hill at 544 m (1,785 ft), 22.8 km to the SE — 363 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Shaw is
Latitude 53.580129, longitude -2.091421. 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 Shaw'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 245 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.