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London

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 138 ft

Kent

United Kingdom > England

Kent was also the location of the largest number of art schools in the country during the nineteenth century, estimated by the art historian David Haste, to approach two hundred. This is believed to be the result of Kent being a front line county during the Napoleonic Wars. At this time, before the invention…

Average elevation: 121 ft

South East England

United Kingdom > England

Near Weybridge are the UK headquarters of Sony with SSP Group (situated in Byfleet) and Procter & Gamble (next door to each other on The Heights Business Park near the former Brooklands racing circuit) with Kia Motors UK and Petroleum Geo-Services UK, and Gallaher Group (cigarettes) is to the north, next to…

Average elevation: 226 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

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

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

Oxfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 371 ft

East Kilbride

United Kingdom > Scotland > East Kilbride

Average elevation: 581 ft

Bromley

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 203 ft

Belfast

United Kingdom > Northern Ireland > County Antrim

Average elevation: 285 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

Somerset

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 285 ft

East of England

United Kingdom > England

The East of England region has the lowest elevation range in the UK. Twenty percent of the region is below mean sea level, most of this in North Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and on the Essex Coast. Most of the remaining area is of low elevation, with extensive glacial deposits. The Fens, a large area of reclaimed…

Average elevation: 128 ft

Cambridgeshire

United Kingdom > England

Cambridgeshire has a maritime temperate climate which is broadly similar to the rest of the United Kingdom, though it is drier than the UK average due to its low altitude and easterly location, the prevailing southwesterly winds having already deposited moisture on higher ground further west. Average winter…

Average elevation: 105 ft

Rotherby

United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire > Melton

Average elevation: 253 ft

Wimbledon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 85 ft

Hampshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 240 ft

Wicklewood

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > South Norfolk > Wicklewood

Average elevation: 141 ft

Westray

United Kingdom > Scotland > Orkney Islands > Midbea

Average elevation: 20 ft

Dorset

United Kingdom > England > Talbot Village

Average elevation: 187 ft

Lincolnshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 92 ft

Highland

United Kingdom > Scotland

Average elevation: 600 ft

Beacon

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Camborne

Average elevation: 410 ft

Aberdeen

United Kingdom > Scotland > Aberdeen

Two weather stations collect climate data for the area, Aberdeen/Dyce Airport, and Craibstone. Both are about 4 1⁄2 miles (7 km) to the north west of the city centre, and given that they are in close proximity to each other, exhibit very similar climatic regimes. Dyce tends to have marginally warmer daytime…

Average elevation: 171 ft

Portishead

United Kingdom > England > Portishead

Average elevation: 85 ft

Alport

United Kingdom > England > Derbyshire > Derbyshire Dales

Average elevation: 617 ft

East Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 141 ft

Cairngorms National Park

United Kingdom > Scotland

Average elevation: 1,414 ft

Isle of Arran

United Kingdom > Scotland > North Ayrshire

The island has three endemic species of tree, the Arran whitebeams. These trees are the Scottish or Arran whitebeam (Sorbus arranensis), the bastard mountain ash or cut-leaved whitebeam (Sorbus pseudofennica) and the Catacol whitebeam (Sorbus pseudomeinichii). If rarity is measured by numbers alone they are…

Average elevation: 322 ft

Cranbourne

United Kingdom > England > Bracknell Forest

Average elevation: 233 ft

Ringmore

United Kingdom > England > Devon > South Hams > Ringmore

Average elevation: 266 ft

Malvern

United Kingdom > England > Worcestershire > Malvern Hills

Malvern lies in the Lower Severn/Avon plain affording it a degree of shelter caused by virtue of its nestling in between the Cotswold hills to the east, the Welsh Hills and Mountains to the west, and Birmingham plateau to the north. Although as with all the British Isles it has a maritime climate, the local…

Average elevation: 312 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

Enfield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 128 ft

Durham

United Kingdom > England > County Durham

Average elevation: 390 ft

Newport

United Kingdom > Wales > Newport

Average elevation: 292 ft

Upper Stoke

United Kingdom > England > Medway

Average elevation: 46 ft

Tonbridge

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Tonbridge and Malling

Average elevation: 171 ft

Clarborough

United Kingdom > England > Nottinghamshire > Bassetlaw

Average elevation: 112 ft

Kesh

United Kingdom > Northern Ireland > County Fermanagh

Average elevation: 207 ft

Boustead Hill

United Kingdom > England > Cumberland

Average elevation: 26 ft

Abergavenny

United Kingdom > Wales > Monmouthshire

Average elevation: 614 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

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

Aston's Eyot

United Kingdom > England > Oxfordshire > Oxford

Average elevation: 207 ft

Hertfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Elevations are higher in the north and west, reaching more than 800 feet (240 m) in the Chilterns near Tring. The county centres on the headwaters and upper valleys of the rivers Lea and the Colne; both flow south, and each is accompanied by a canal. Hertfordshire's undeveloped land is mainly agricultural,…

Average elevation: 269 ft

North Yorkshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 502 ft

Lancashire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 502 ft

Essex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 144 ft

Devon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 308 ft

Bodham

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > North Norfolk

Average elevation: 246 ft

Tawstock

United Kingdom > England > Devon > North Devon > Eastacombe

Average elevation: 213 ft

Hinderwell

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 164 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

Glyder Fach

United Kingdom > Wales > Conwy

Average elevation: 2,175 ft

Chelsfield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 384 ft

Hebden Bridge

United Kingdom > England > Calderdale

Average elevation: 909 ft

Blaenavon

United Kingdom > Wales > Torfaen

Average elevation: 1,257 ft

Hilcote

United Kingdom > England > Derbyshire > Bolsover

Average elevation: 463 ft

Wrexham

United Kingdom > Wales > Wrexham

Average elevation: 456 ft

Budock Water

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 210 ft

Vixen Tor

United Kingdom > England > Devon > West Devon

Average elevation: 971 ft

Acharacle

United Kingdom > Scotland > Highland

Average elevation: 151 ft

Forton

United Kingdom > England > Somerset > Chard

Average elevation: 371 ft

Burnet Knowe

United Kingdom > Scotland > Scottish Borders > Hownam

Average elevation: 715 ft

Little Parrock

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Wealden

Average elevation: 305 ft

Brighton

United Kingdom > England > Brighton and Hove

Average elevation: 210 ft

Herefordshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 522 ft

City of Bristol

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 262 ft

Salford

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 171 ft

East Midlands

United Kingdom > England

The highest point at 636 m (2,087 ft) is Kinder Scout, in the Peak District of the southern Pennines in northwest Derbyshire near Glossop. Other hilly areas of 95 to 280 m (312 to 919 ft) in altitude, together with lakes and reservoirs, rise in and around the Charnwood Forest north of Peterborough, Leicester,…

Average elevation: 246 ft

Darlington

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 230 ft

Stafford

United Kingdom > England > Staffordshire

Average elevation: 417 ft

Hoe

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > Breckland District > Hoe

Average elevation: 144 ft

Minting

United Kingdom > England > Lincolnshire > East Lindsey > Minting

Average elevation: 89 ft

Shetland

United Kingdom > Scotland

Walter Scott's 1822 novel The Pirate is set in "a remote part of Shetland", and was inspired by his 1814 visit to the islands. The name Jarlshof meaning "Earl's Mansion" is a coinage of his. Robert Cowie, a doctor born in Lerwick published the 1874 work.Shetland: Descriptive and Historical; Being a Graduation…

Average elevation: 13 ft

Bradenham

United Kingdom > England > Buckinghamshire

Average elevation: 502 ft

Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 128 ft

Weston Rhyn

United Kingdom > England > Shropshire

Average elevation: 479 ft

Threshfield

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 817 ft

Clynnog

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Average elevation: 315 ft

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