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London

United Kingdom > England > London

Average elevation: 42 m

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: 104 m

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: 69 m

Efail Fach

United Kingdom > Wales > Neath Port Talbot

Average elevation: 192 m

Abergavenny

United Kingdom > Wales > Monmouthshire

Average elevation: 187 m

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: 100 m

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: 79 m

The Arches

United Kingdom > England > City of Bristol > Bristol

Average elevation: 50 m

Brighton

United Kingdom > England > Brighton and Hove

Average elevation: 64 m

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: 32 m

Stonegrave

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 46 m

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: 81 m

Toot Hill

United Kingdom > England > Essex > Epping Forest

Average elevation: 81 m

Forton

United Kingdom > England > Somerset > Chard

Average elevation: 113 m

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: 37 m

Essex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 44 m

Ingham

United Kingdom > England > Suffolk

Average elevation: 43 m

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: 94 m

Hebden Bridge

United Kingdom > England > Calderdale

Average elevation: 277 m

Staintondale

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 136 m

Beacon

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall > Camborne

Average elevation: 125 m

Dorset

United Kingdom > England > Talbot Village

Average elevation: 57 m

Oxfordshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 113 m

Lincolnshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 28 m

Bodham

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > North Norfolk

Average elevation: 75 m

Clynnog

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Average elevation: 96 m

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: 95 m

Enfield

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 39 m

Bromley

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 62 m

Rowhedge

United Kingdom > England > Essex > Colchester

Average elevation: 20 m

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: 42 m

Leigh upon Mendip

United Kingdom > England > Somerset

Average elevation: 177 m

Schiehallion

United Kingdom > Scotland > Perth and Kinross

Schiehallion lies between Loch Tay, Loch Rannoch and Loch Tummel, about 10 miles (16 kilometres) to the west-north-west of Aberfeldy in Perthshire. The mountain, with an elevation of 1,083 metres (3,553 ft), is isolated from other peaks and has an almost perfectly conical shape from the west. The view of the…

Average elevation: 652 m

Johnstone

United Kingdom > Scotland > Renfrewshire

Average elevation: 65 m

Wrexham

United Kingdom > Wales > Wrexham

Average elevation: 139 m

Vixen Tor

United Kingdom > England > Devon > West Devon

Average elevation: 296 m

Beversbrook

United Kingdom > England > Wiltshire > Calne

Average elevation: 90 m

Watford

United Kingdom > England > West Northamptonshire

Average elevation: 129 m

Ham

United Kingdom > England > Somerset > Combe St Nicholas

Average elevation: 171 m

Cherry Orchard

United Kingdom > England > Sandwell > Old Hill

Average elevation: 149 m

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: 18 m

Mayfield Park

United Kingdom > England > Manchester

Average elevation: 47 m

Somerset

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 87 m

Salford

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 52 m

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: 39 m

Devon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 94 m

Hoe

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > Breckland District > Hoe

Average elevation: 44 m

Lopen

United Kingdom > England > Somerset

Average elevation: 48 m

Ansford

United Kingdom > England > Somerset

Average elevation: 67 m

Sussex

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 39 m

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: 98 m

Threshfield

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 249 m

East Kilbride

United Kingdom > Scotland > East Kilbride

Average elevation: 177 m

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: 37 m

Gaping Gill

United Kingdom > England > North Yorkshire

Average elevation: 438 m

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: 52 m

Durham

United Kingdom > England > County Durham

Average elevation: 119 m

Portishead

United Kingdom > England > Portishead

Average elevation: 26 m

Upper Stoke

United Kingdom > England > Medway

Average elevation: 14 m

Oswaldtwistle

United Kingdom > England > Lancashire > Hyndburn

Average elevation: 203 m

Rotherby

United Kingdom > England > Leicestershire > Melton

Average elevation: 77 m

Golan

United Kingdom > Wales > Gwynedd

Average elevation: 143 m

Ridley

United Kingdom > England > Kent > Sevenoaks > Hodsoll Street

Average elevation: 146 m

Bracon

United Kingdom > England > North Lincolnshire

Average elevation: 7 m

Indian Queens

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 123 m

Hilcote

United Kingdom > England > Derbyshire > Bolsover

Average elevation: 141 m

Hownam

United Kingdom > Scotland > Scottish Borders

Average elevation: 234 m

Wimbledon

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 26 m

Rhosneigr

United Kingdom > Wales > Isle of Anglesey

Average elevation: 5 m

Budock Water

United Kingdom > England > Cornwall

Average elevation: 64 m

West Barsham

United Kingdom > England > Norfolk > North Norfolk

Average elevation: 49 m

Ealing

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 26 m

Little Parrock

United Kingdom > England > East Sussex > Wealden

Average elevation: 93 m

Hollom Down

United Kingdom > England > Hampshire > Test Valley

Average elevation: 107 m

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: 4 m

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: 82 m

Colchester

United Kingdom > England > Essex

Average elevation: 28 m

West Yorkshire

United Kingdom > England

Wakefield's Parish Church was raised to cathedral status in 1888 and after the elevation of Wakefield to diocese, Wakefield Council immediately sought city status and this was granted in July 1888. However the industrial revolution, which changed West and South Yorkshire significantly, led to the growth of…

Average elevation: 172 m

Lancashire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 153 m

Hampshire

United Kingdom > England

Average elevation: 73 m

Mainland

United Kingdom > Scotland > Orkney Islands

Average elevation: 28 m

Highland

United Kingdom > Scotland

Average elevation: 183 m

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