Elevation of Swanage, England, United Kingdom
Swanage, England, United Kingdom is 11 m (36 ft) above sea level.
Swanage's height from sea level is 11 metres, or 36 feet. GeoNames reads 5 m at the same point (SRTM).
Ground within 4 km
Mean 29 m across the 8.3 km square centred on the town, 146 m from its lowest cell to its highest.
Cross-section through Swanage
Ground elevation along two lines through the town, 23.5 km end to end, one cell (about 1 km) per step. The red dot is Swanage; 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 Swanage
| Town | Distance | Direction | Elevation | Compared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poole | 12.4 km | N | 0 m (0 ft) | −11 m |
| Bournemouth | 13.6 km | NE | 23 m (75 ft) | +12 m |
| Christchurch | 19.1 km | NE | 4 m (13 ft) | −7 m |
| Wimbourne Minster | 21.5 km | N | 22 m (72 ft) | +11 m |
| Ferndown | 22.6 km | N | 27 m (89 ft) | +16 m |
Peaks and passes near Swanage
- Swyre Head, hill at 207 m (679 ft), 9.4 km to the W — 196 m above the town.
- Nine Barrow Down, hill at 200 m (656 ft), 3.2 km to the NW — 189 m above the town.
- Ridgeway Hill, hill at 199 m (653 ft), 11.8 km to the W — 188 m above the town.
Summit heights from GeoNames (CC BY 4.0), within 25 km; only summits higher than the town are listed.
Where Swanage is
Latitude 50.608277, longitude -1.960769. 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 Swanage'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 5 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.