United Kingdom topographic maps
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Orkney Islands
The southern group of islands surrounds Scapa Flow. Hoy, to the west, is the second largest of the Orkney Isles and Ward Hill at its northern end is the highest elevation in the archipelago. The Old Man of Hoy is a well-known seastack. Graemsay and Flotta are both linked by ferry to the Mainland and Hoy, and…
Average elevation: 7 m
Flash
United Kingdom > England > Staffordshire > Staffordshire Moorlands
Flash is a village in the Staffordshire Moorlands, England, and Peak District National Park. At 1,519 feet (463 m) above sea level, it is the highest village in the United Kingdom. Some sources claim a height of 1,531ft for Wanlockhead in Scotland, but a survey in 2019 showed that there are no buildings in…
Average elevation: 412 m
Hayling Island
United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Havant > North Hayling
An Iron Age shrine in the north of Hayling Island was later developed into a Roman temple in the 1st century BC and was first recorded in Richard Scott's Topographical and Historical Account of Hayling Island (1826). The site was dug between 1897 and 1907 and again from 1976 to 1978. The remains are now buried…
Average elevation: 1 m
Marlborough
United Kingdom > England > Wiltshire > Marlborough
Marlborough has an oceanic climate somewhat influenced by its inland position and at 407 feet (124 m) elevation is more prone to frost than southern coastal areas. For example, in 1909 the town reported the equal lowest temperature in the UK at a station below 1,600 feet (500 m) for that year, with a…
Average elevation: 163 m
Christchurch
United Kingdom > England > Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole > Hurn
Average elevation: 18 m
Harrogate
United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire
Harrogate is situated on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales, with the Vale of York to the east and the upland Yorkshire Dales to the west and north-west. It has a dry and mild climate, typical of places in the rain shadow of the Pennines. It is on the A59 from Skipton to York. At an altitude of between 100 and…
Average elevation: 106 m
Swansea
United Kingdom > Wales > Swansea
Much of Swansea is hilly with the main area of upland being located in the council ward of Mawr. Areas up to 185 metres (607 ft) in elevation range across the central section: Kilvey Hill, Townhill and Llwynmawr separate the centre of Swansea from its northern suburbs. Cefn Bryn, a ridge of high land, is the…
Average elevation: 73 m
Deddington
United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire > Cherwell District
Clifton, Deddington and Hempton stand on a ridge of Jurassic ferruginous marlstone hills between the three watercourses. Clifton is about 1+1⁄2 miles (2.4 km) east of Deddington, at the eastern end of the ridge where it slopes down to the Cherwell. The ridges rises westward. Deddington is about 430 feet (130…
Average elevation: 107 m
Fort William
United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland
Fort William has an oceanic climate (Cfb) with moderate, but generally cool, temperatures and abundant precipitation. In the towns immediate vicinity, there are significant variations in elevation, which leads to some uninhabited areas near the town having a subpolar oceanic climate (Cfc), or, at the absolute…
Average elevation: 122 m
Belvoir Castle
United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire > Melton > Belvoir
The traditional burial place of the Manners family was St Mary the Virgin's Church, Bottesford. Since elevation to the dukedom in 1703 most Dukes have been buried in the grounds of the mausoleum at Belvoir Castle. The mausoleum at Belvoir Castle was built by The 5th Duke of Rutland, following the death of his…
Average elevation: 82 m
Aylesbury
United Kingdom > England > Buckinghamshire
Aylesbury is immediately southeast of the upper River Thame that flows past Thame to Dorchester on Thames and is partly sited on the two northernmost outcrops of Portland (lime)stone in England bisected by a small stream, Bear Brook which gives a relatively prominent position in relation to the terrain of all…
Average elevation: 85 m