Topografische Karte Lyme Bay

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 66 m

Birmingham is a snowy city relative to other large UK conurbations, due to its inland location and comparatively high elevation. Between 1961 and 1990 Birmingham Airport averaged 13.0 days of snow lying annually, compared to 5.33 at London Heathrow. Snow showers often pass through the city via the Cheshire gap…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 138 m

Sheffield nestles on the eastern foothills of the Pennines and is sculpted by a dramatic hill-and-valley system formed where five rivers — the Don, Sheaf, Rivelin, Loxley and Porter — converge, producing steep-sided valleys and gritstone ridgelines with much of the urban area built directly onto hillsides…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 168 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 56 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 55 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 37 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 96 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 69 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 23 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 225 m

Bath is in the Avon Valley and is surrounded by limestone hills as it is near the southern edge of the Cotswolds, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, and the limestone Mendip Hills rise around 7 miles (11 km) south of the city. The hills that surround and make up the city have a maximum altitude…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 100 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 28 m

North East England has a Marine west coast climate (generally found along the west coast of middle latitude continents) with narrower temperature ranges than the south of England and sufficient precipitation in all months. Summers and winters are mild rather than extremely hot or cold, due to the strong…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 165 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 28 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 64 m

The Lake District is a roughly circular upland massif, deeply dissected by a broadly radial pattern of major valleys which are largely the result of repeated glaciations over the last 2 million years. The apparent radial pattern is not from a central dome, but from an axial watershed extending from St Bees…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 206 m

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,…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 82 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 81 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 87 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 84 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 57 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 119 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 39 m

The interior of the county consists of a roughly east–west spine of infertile and exposed upland, with a series of granite intrusions, such as Bodmin Moor, which contains the highest land within Cornwall. From east to west, and with approximately descending altitude, these are Bodmin Moor, Hensbarrow north…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 55 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 205 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 7 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 16 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 141 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 18 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 26 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 26 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 90 m

The west of the county lies on more resistant Cretaceous chalk. This chalk is responsible for a sweeping tract of largely downland landscapes that stretches from Dorset in the south west to Dover in the south east and north through East Anglia to the Yorkshire Wolds. The chalk is less easily eroded so forms…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 35 m

The highest elevation in Surrey is Leith Hill near Dorking. It is 295 m (968 ft) above sea level and is the second highest point in southeastern England after Walbury Hill in West Berkshire which is 297 m (974 ft).

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 69 m

Rainfall tends to be associated with Atlantic depressions or with convection. In summer, convection caused by solar surface heating sometimes forms shower clouds and a large proportion of rainfall falls from showers and thunderstorms at this time of year. The wettest months are November and December and on the…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 239 m

The South Downs National Park's chalk downland is a feature that sets it apart from other national parks in Britain. However, almost a quarter (23%) of the national park consists of a quite different and strongly contrasting physiographic region, the western Weald, whose densely wooded hills and vales are…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 54 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 84 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 3 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 70 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 73 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 183 m

The River Severn (Welsh: Afon Hafren, pronounced [ˈavɔn ˈhavrɛn]), at 220 miles (354 km) long, is the longest river in Great Britain. It is also the river with the most voluminous flow of water by far in all of England and Wales, with an average flow rate of 107 m3/s (3,800 cu ft/s) at Apperley,…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 169 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 43 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 21 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 141 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 70 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 22 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 173 m

In Yorkshire there is a very close relationship between the major topographical areas and the geological period in which they were formed. The Pennine chain of hills in the west is of Carboniferous origin. The central vale is Permo-Triassic. The North York Moors in the north-east of the county are Jurassic in…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 130 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 45 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 298 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 48 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 44 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 29 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 95 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 38 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 39 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 51 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 74 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 116 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 17 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 49 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 157 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 84 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 70 m

The English name was recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as Sceptesberie, and the use of "Shaston" (/ˈʃæstən/) was recorded in 1831 in Samuel Lewis's A Topographical Dictionary of England and in 1840 in The parliamentary gazetteer of England and Wales.

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 167 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 162 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 32 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 13 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 67 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 109 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 34 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 83 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 32 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 94 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 15 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 151 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 66 m

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…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 109 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 81 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 88 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 99 m

The local climate around Luton is differentiated somewhat from much of South East England due to its position in the Chiltern Hills, meaning it tends to be 1–2 degrees Celsius cooler than the surrounding towns – often flights at Luton airport, lying 160 m (525 ft) above sea level, will be suspended when…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 146 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 23 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 166 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 90 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 14 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 153 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 66 m

Buxton has an oceanic climate with short, mild summers and long, cool winters. At about 1,000 feet (300 m) above sea level, As the highest market town in England, Buxton's elevation makes it cooler and wetter than surrounding towns, with a daytime temperature typically about 2 °C lower than Manchester.

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 334 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 103 m

London's topography is characterized by a gently rolling terrain shaped by the River Thames and its tributaries. The city lies within the London Basin, a natural depression bordered by higher grounds such as the North Downs to the south and the Chiltern Hills to the northwest. The Thames flows west to east,…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 66 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 195 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 40 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 209 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 84 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 28 m

The western part of the district in the Vale of York borders on and is drained by the River Derwent. The landscape is generally low-lying and flat although minor ridges and glacial moraines provide some variations in topography. Where there are dry sandy soils there are remnants of historic heathlands and…

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 30 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 113 m

Durchschnittliche Höhe: 159 m