Geolocate

Great Britain topographic map

Interactive map

Click on the map to display elevation.

Great Britain

Great Britain's topography is characterized by a diverse landscape shaped by its geological history. The island predominantly features lowland terrain in the east and south, with rolling countryside and plains, while the western and northern regions are marked by hills and mountains. Notable upland areas include the Lake District and the Pennines in England, the Grampian Mountains in Scotland, and the Cambrian Mountains in Wales. The highest peak, Ben Nevis in Scotland, rises to 1,345 meters (4,413 feet). The terrain also showcases features such as the White Cliffs of Dover, composed of chalk and flint, and the rugged landscapes formed by glacial activity during the last ice age.

About this map

Name: Great Britain topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Great Britain, United Kingdom (49.95870 -6.22788 58.67208 1.76322)

Average elevation: 171 ft

Minimum elevation: -20 ft

Maximum elevation: 4,045 ft

Other topographic maps

Click on a map to view its topography, its elevation and its terrain.

London

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 138 ft

Edinburgh

United Kingdom > Scotland > Edinburgh

Some have called Edinburgh the Athens of the North for a variety of reasons. The earliest comparison between the two cities showed that they had a similar topography, with the Castle Rock of Edinburgh performing a similar role to the Athenian Acropolis. Both of them had flatter, fertile agricultural land…

Average elevation: 341 ft

Swindon

United Kingdom > England > Swindon

Swindon has an oceanic climate (Cfb in the Köppen climate classification), like the vast majority of the British Isles, with cool winters and warm summers. The nearest official weather station is RAF Lyneham, about 10 miles (16 km) west southwest of Swindon town centre. The weather station's elevation is 145…

Average elevation: 354 ft

Glastonbury

United Kingdom > England > Glastonbury

Average elevation: 46 ft

Hebden Bridge

United Kingdom > England > Calderdale

Average elevation: 909 ft

City of London

United Kingdom > England > City of London > City of London

The elevation of the City ranges from sea level at the Thames to 21.6 metres (71 ft) at the junction of High Holborn and Chancery Lane. Two small but notable hills are within the historic core, Ludgate Hill to the west and Cornhill to the east. Between them ran the Walbrook, one of the many "lost" rivers or…

Average elevation: 138 ft

Ben Nevis

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Ben Nevis has a highland (alpine) maritime (oceanic) polar climate (ET climate in the Köppen classification). Ben Nevis's elevation, maritime location and topography frequently lead to cool and cloudy weather conditions, which can pose a danger to ill-equipped walkers. According to the observations carried…

Average elevation: 2,992 ft

Glasgow

United Kingdom > Scotland > Glasgow City

Glasgow itself was reputed to have been founded by the Christian missionary Saint Mungo in the 6th century. He established a church on the Molendinar Burn, where the present Glasgow Cathedral stands, and in the following years Glasgow became a religious centre. Glasgow grew over the following centuries. The…

Average elevation: 420 ft

Cambrian Mountains

United Kingdom > Wales > Powys

Average elevation: 1,047 ft

Hampstead Heath

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 308 ft

St Albans

United Kingdom > England > Hertfordshire > St Albans

St Albans was an ancient borough created following the dissolution of the monastery in 1539. It consisted of the ancient parish of St Albans (also known as the Abbey parish) and parts of St Michael and St Peter. The municipal corporation was reformed by the Municipal Corporations Act 1835 and the boundary was…

Average elevation: 328 ft

Cambridge

United Kingdom > England > Cambridge

The city, like most of the UK, has a maritime climate highly influenced by the Gulf Stream. Located in the driest region of Britain, Cambridge's rainfall averages around 570 mm (22.44 in) per year, around half the national average, with some years occasionally falling into the semi-arid (under 500 mm (19.69…

Average elevation: 59 ft

Ynyslas

United Kingdom > Wales > Ceredigion > Borth

Average elevation: 3 ft

Alport

United Kingdom > England > Derbyshire > Derbyshire Dales

Average elevation: 617 ft

Leeds

United Kingdom > England

Lying in the eastern foothills of the Pennines, there is a significant variation in elevation within the city's built-up area. The district ranges from 1,115 feet (340 m) in the far west on the slopes of Ilkley Moor to about 33 feet (10 m) where the rivers Aire and Wharfe cross the eastern boundary. Land rises…

Average elevation: 308 ft

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Scotland accounts for just under a third (32 per cent) of the total area of the UK, covering 78,772 square kilometres (30,410 sq mi). This includes nearly eight hundred islands, predominantly west and north of the mainland; notably the Hebrides, Orkney Islands and Shetland Islands. Scotland is the most…

Average elevation: 259 ft

Bexhill-on-Sea

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Rother

Average elevation: 43 ft

Brecon

United Kingdom > Wales > Powys

Average elevation: 709 ft

Abergavenny

United Kingdom > Wales > Monmouthshire

Average elevation: 614 ft

Telford

United Kingdom > England > Telford and Wrekin

Average elevation: 446 ft

Inverness

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Average elevation: 535 ft

Richmond

United Kingdom > England > London

The town centre lies just below 33 ft (10m) above sea level. South of the town centre, rising from Richmond Bridge to an elevation of 165 ft (50m), is Richmond Hill. Just beyond the summit of Richmond Hill is Richmond Park, an area of 2,360 acres (9.55 km2; 3.7 sq mi) of wild heath and woodland originally…

Average elevation: 56 ft

Leicester

United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire

Average elevation: 358 ft

Derby

United Kingdom > England > Derbyshire

Average elevation: 315 ft

Reading

United Kingdom > England > Reading

Mary Russell Mitford lived in Reading for a number of years and then spent the rest of her life just outside the town at Three Mile Cross and Swallowfield. The fictional Belford Regis of her eponymous novel, first published in 1835, is largely based on Reading. Described with topographical accuracy, it is…

Average elevation: 184 ft

Plymouth

United Kingdom > England > Devon > Plymouth

The River Plym, which flows off Dartmoor to the north-east, forms a smaller estuary to the east of the city called Cattewater. Plymouth Sound is protected from the sea by the Plymouth Breakwater, in use since 1814. In the Sound is Drake's Island which is seen from Plymouth Hoe, a flat public area on top of…

Average elevation: 266 ft

Ridley

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Sevenoaks > Hodsoll Street

Average elevation: 479 ft

Vixen Tor

United Kingdom > England > Devon > West Devon

Average elevation: 971 ft

Campbeltown

United Kingdom > Scotland > Argyll and Bute

Average elevation: 276 ft

Laleham

United Kingdom > England > Surrey > Borough of Spelthorne

Average elevation: 46 ft

Clacton-on-Sea

United Kingdom > England > Essex > Tendring

Average elevation: 23 ft

Vigo Village

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Gravesham

Average elevation: 472 ft

Golan

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Average elevation: 469 ft

Poulner

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > New Forest

Average elevation: 115 ft

Snowdon

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Snowdon (/ˈsnoʊdən/) or Yr Wyddfa (pronounced [ər ˈʊɨ̞̯ðva] (listen)), is the highest mountain in Wales, at an elevation of 1,085 metres (3,560 ft) above sea level, and the highest point in the British Isles outside the Scottish Highlands. It is located in Snowdonia National Park (Parc Cenedlaethol…

Average elevation: 2,270 ft

Stirlingshire

United Kingdom > Scotland

Average elevation: 728 ft

Beacon

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Camborne

Average elevation: 410 ft

Port Talbot

United Kingdom > Wales > Neath Port Talbot

Average elevation: 249 ft

Pound Hill

United Kingdom > England > West Sussex > Crawley

Average elevation: 262 ft

Thwaite

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 1,368 ft

Broomfield

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Maidstone > Leeds

Average elevation: 315 ft

Calveley

United Kingdom > England > Cheshire East

Average elevation: 190 ft

Mote Park

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Maidstone > Otham

Average elevation: 171 ft

Newbridge

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > New Forest

Average elevation: 108 ft

Upper Canada

United Kingdom > England > North Somerset > Hutton

Average elevation: 157 ft

Harleston

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > South Norfolk

Average elevation: 121 ft

Winchelsea Beach

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Rother

Average elevation: 10 ft

Blackdown

United Kingdom > England > West Sussex > Chichester

Blackdown, or Black Down, summit elevation 279.7 metres (918 ft) AMSL, is the highest point in both the historic county of Sussex and the South Downs National Park. It is one of the highest points in the south east of England, exceeded by Walbury Hill, Leith Hill and Pilot Hill. Blackdown is protected as part…

Average elevation: 541 ft

Basingstoke

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Basingstoke and Deane

Situated in a valley through the Hampshire Downs at an average elevation of 88 metres (289 ft) Basingstoke is a major interchange between Reading, Newbury, Andover, Winchester, and Alton, and lies on the natural trade route between the southwest of England and London. The area had been something of an…

Average elevation: 361 ft

Chelsfield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 384 ft

Burton-on-Trent

United Kingdom > England > Staffordshire > East Staffordshire

Burton is about 109 miles (175 km) north west of London, about 30 miles north east of Birmingham, the UK's second largest city and about 23 miles east of the county town Stafford. It is at the easternmost border of the county of Staffordshire with Derbyshire, its suburbs and the course of the River Trent…

Average elevation: 226 ft

Cardiff

United Kingdom > Wales > Cardiff

Average elevation: 180 ft

Bromley

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 203 ft

York

United Kingdom > England > York

Average elevation: 69 ft

Bedford

United Kingdom > England > Bedford

As with the rest of the United Kingdom, Bedford has a maritime climate, with a limited range of temperatures, and generally even rainfall throughout the year. The nearest Met Office weather station to Bedford is Bedford (Thurleigh) airport, about 6.5 miles (10.5 km) north of Bedford town centre at an elevation…

Average elevation: 121 ft

Hull

United Kingdom > England > Kingston upon Hull

Kingston upon Hull is on the northern bank of the Humber Estuary. The city centre is west of the River Hull and close to the Humber. The city is built upon alluvial and glacial deposits which overlie chalk rocks but the underlying chalk has no influence on the topography. The land within the city is generally…

Average elevation: 69 ft

Torquay

United Kingdom > England > Torbay

Average elevation: 102 ft

Peterborough

United Kingdom > England > Cambridgeshire

The local topography is flat, and in some places, the land lies below sea level, for example in parts of the Fens to the east and to the south of Peterborough. Human settlement in the area began before the Bronze Age, as can be seen at the Flag Fen archaeological site to the east of the current city centre,…

Average elevation: 56 ft

Durham

United Kingdom > England > County Durham

Average elevation: 390 ft

Perth

United Kingdom > Scotland > Perth and Kinross

Average elevation: 433 ft

Upper Stoke

United Kingdom > England > Medway

Average elevation: 46 ft

Aston's Eyot

United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire > Oxford

Average elevation: 207 ft

Little Parrock

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Wealden

Average elevation: 305 ft

Oswaldtwistle

United Kingdom > England > Lancashire > Hyndburn

Average elevation: 666 ft

Keswick

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > South Norfolk

Average elevation: 75 ft

North Rona

United Kingdom > Scotland > Western Isles

Rona (Scottish Gaelic: Rònaigh) is an uninhabited Scottish island in the North Atlantic. It is often referred to as North Rona to distinguish it from the island of South Rona in the Inner Hebrides. It has an area of 109 hectares (270 acres) and a maximum elevation of 108 metres (354 ft).

Average elevation: 13 ft

Redpost

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Doublebois

Average elevation: 459 ft

Low Ackworth

United Kingdom > England > Wakefield

Average elevation: 135 ft

Hickstead

United Kingdom > England > West Sussex > Mid Sussex

Average elevation: 69 ft

Leatherhead

United Kingdom > England > Surrey > Mole Valley

Average elevation: 266 ft

Budock Water

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 210 ft

Banstead

United Kingdom > England > Surrey > Reigate and Banstead

Average elevation: 377 ft

Tottenham

United Kingdom > England

Tottenham's elevation is approximately 33 ft (10 m) above sea level.

Average elevation: 82 ft

Blea Tarn

United Kingdom > England > Cumberland > Boot > Beckfoot

Blea Tarn is a lake in Eskdale, Cumbria, in the English Lake District, located about half a mile north of Beckfoot. Located at an elevation of 217 m (712 ft), the lake has an area of 3.3 hectares (8.2 acres) and measures 277 m × 150 m (909 ft × 492 ft), with a maximum depth of 11 m (36 ft).

Average elevation: 472 ft

Clydau

United Kingdom > Wales > Pembrokeshire

Average elevation: 512 ft

Fernhill Heath

United Kingdom > England > Worcestershire > Wychavon

Average elevation: 131 ft

Acharacle

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Average elevation: 151 ft

Beauly

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Average elevation: 233 ft

Keycol Hill

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Borough of Swale

Average elevation: 131 ft

Bispham

United Kingdom > England > Borough of Blackpool

Average elevation: 30 ft

Wimbledon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 85 ft

Huddersfield

United Kingdom > England > Kirklees

Average elevation: 476 ft

Hemel Hempstead

United Kingdom > England > Hertfordshire > Dacorum

Average elevation: 427 ft

Portsmouth

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Portsmouth

By road, Portsmouth lies 73.5 miles (118.3 km) from Central London, 49.5 miles (79.7 km) west of Brighton, and 22.3 miles (35.9 km) east of Southampton. Portsmouth is situated primarily on Portsea Island and is the United Kingdom's only island city, although parts of it have expanded onto the mainland. Gosport…

Average elevation: 92 ft

Tonbridge

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Tonbridge and Malling

Average elevation: 171 ft

Salisbury

United Kingdom > England > Salisbury

Bishop of Salisbury Hubert Walter was instrumental in the negotiations with Saladin during the Third Crusade, but he spent little time in his diocese prior to his elevation to archbishop of Canterbury. The brothers Herbert and Richard Poore succeeded him and began planning the relocation of the cathedral into…

Average elevation: 315 ft

Brighton

United Kingdom > England > Brighton and Hove

Average elevation: 210 ft

Dundee

United Kingdom > Scotland > Dundee City

Dundee sits on the north bank of the Firth of Tay on the eastern, North Sea Coast of Scotland. The city lies 36.1 miles (58 km) NNE of Edinburgh and 360.6 miles (580 km) NNW of London. The built-up area occupies a roughly rectangular shape 8.3 miles (13 km) long by 2.5 miles (4 km) wide, aligned in an east to…

Average elevation: 269 ft

Renfrew

United Kingdom > Scotland > Renfrewshire

Average elevation: 52 ft

Bracon

United Kingdom > England > North Lincolnshire

Average elevation: 23 ft