Middleham topographic map

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Name: Middleham topographic map, elevation, terrain.

Location: Middleham, North Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom (54.27034 -1.86574 54.29837 -1.78292)

Average elevation: 157 m

Minimum elevation: 95 m

Maximum elevation: 378 m

The town lies between 400 and 500 feet (120 and 150 m) above ordnance datum. The valley of the River Ure below the town has an altitude of 325 feet (99 m) and the summit of the hill to the south-west of the town of 850 feet (260 m). The parish contains 2,155 acres (872 ha) of land, mostly permanent pasture with about 150 acres (61 ha) arable. The topsoil is mixed. The valley has modern alluvial terraces and gravel deposits, but the subsoil is mainly limestone, intersected here and there by sandstone with plate. There is a known vein of lead in the northern part of the parish. Braithwaite lead mine lies just outside the parish borders.

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