United Kingdom canyon rim
Ironbridge Gorge
You can see 6 km from here, looking west.
Calculating the panorama…
Drag to turn around. The relief is drawn 2.2 times taller so the ridges can be read; far ridges are paler, as in the real air.
The view
Up to 6 km away.
Calculated on the relief one degree at a time, up to 250 km, with the curvature of the Earth and the refraction of the air: what stands above the horizon from here.
Our own rating, from the relief and the climate only: open horizon (35 points), how far you see (25), sea and named peaks in view (20) and clear months (20).
- 6 kmFarthest ridgelooking west
- 90%Open horizonof the circle where the horizon is below your eyes
- 1Peaks in viewnamed summits that rise above the relief in front
- 66 mAltitudeabove the sea, at the highest point of the viewpoint
The 1 peaks you can name from here
From west to east as you turn around: height, distance and direction. Each one links to its guide on Peakyas, our mountain atlas.
From the relief only: buildings, trees and haze are not in the model. On a hazy day you see much less; 250 km is the limit of our calculation.
The sun
The best sunsets are from April to May, in July and in September.
When the sun really disappears from this viewpoint — behind the relief or into the sea — and in which direction, on the 15th of each month, in local time.
- Jansouth-west126 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Febsouth-west86 min before the sea-level sunset22%
- Marwest56 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Aprwest12 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Maynorth-west22 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Junnorth-west34 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Julnorth-west30 min before the sea-level sunset26%
- Augnorth-west10 min before the sea-level sunset24%
- Sepwest36 min before the sea-level sunset27%
- Octsouth-west76 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Novsouth-west114 min before the sea-level sunset23%
- Decsouth144 min before the sea-level sunset20%
- Time: when the sun goes behind the horizon you see from here.
- Minutes: how much earlier the relief hides the sun.
- %: share of clear sky that month (NASA, 2001–2020).
The highlighted months are the clearest. Golden hour starts about an hour before.
The place
Ironbridge Gorge.
Canyon in The Gorge, Telford and Wrekin, Shropshire, England, UK
Ironbridge Gorge is a canyon rim in United Kingdom, 66 m above the sea.
On a clear day the farthest ridge you can see is 6 km away, looking west.
1 named peaks rise above the relief in front; the most prominent is Snowdonia (1,085 m), 98 km away.
The horizon is open, below your eyes, over 90% of the circle.
The skies are clearest from April to May, in July and in September.
Get there and stay
- Official informationAccess, hours and rules from those who manage the place.Official site↗
- The Leopardcampsite · 1.8 km · 12 within 10 km
- Calcutts Houseplace to stay · 0.5 km · 42 within 10 km
- Ironbridgenearest town · 0.8 km in a straight linePlaces to stay in IronbridgeBooking.com · sponsored link↗
- Birmingham Airport (BHX)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 53 km in a straight lineCar hire at BHX airport (Birmingham, West Midlands)Discover Cars · sponsored link↗
Plan the visit
A guided tour, a bed nearby, a car.
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From above
The viewpoint and its surroundings.
The satellite image of the 6 × 6 km around the viewpoint, with what OpenStreetMap shows nearby.
Around, in OpenStreetMap
- 5other viewpoints within 5 kmThe Rotunda and 4 more
- 1named peaks within 5 kmNedge Hill
- 1cable car and funicular stations within 5 km
- 10marked trails within 3 kmMonarch's Way, South Telford Heritage Trail, Severn Way (2) Shrewsbury to Worcester and 7 more
- 6shelters and huts within 5 km
- 146car parks within 3 km
- 1visitor centres within 5 kmTelford Town Park Visitor Centre
- 26restaurants and cafés within 3 km
- 12campsites within 10 kmThe Leopard, Iron Gorge Camping, Pool View Caravan Park and 9 more
- 42places to stay within 10 kmCalcutts House, Bridge View, The Library House and 39 more
Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit. A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet.
In our other atlases
What you see from Ironbridge Gorge, and what is near.
Everything around this viewpoint — mountains, water, forests, birds, caves and the night sky — in the family's atlases.
Peakyas6 mountains within 25 km
Forestyas2 forests and trees within 15 km
Canyonyas1 canyons within 20 km
Cavernyas1 caves within 20 kmFigures from the sister sites' databases (Wikidata, HydroATLAS, GeoNames, OpenStreetMap, GBIF). Links open when each site is online.
Photographs
The view, as people saw it.
Other viewpoints nearby.
Ironbridge Gorge
United Kingdom
- 35Viewyas Score
- 6 kmFarthest ridge
- 1Peaks in view
- 66 mAltitude
Wheel of Birmingham
United Kingdom · 41 km
- 63Viewyas Score
- 72 kmFarthest ridge
- 43Peaks in view
- 146 mAltitude
Windgather Rocks
United Kingdom · 81 km
- 73Viewyas Score
- 140 kmFarthest ridge
- 383Peaks in view
- 408 mAltitude
Snowdon
United Kingdom · 118 km
- 84Viewyas Score
- 213 kmFarthest ridge
- 556Peaks in view
- 1,051 mAltitude
Where these figures come from
| Name and type | Wikidata (Q647958) · CC0 |
|---|---|
| Sun | J. Meeus, Astronomical Algorithms |
| Peaks in view | Peakyas (Wikidata, CC0) |
| Panorama and altitude | Copernicus DEM GLO-90 / GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA |
| Clouds | NASA POWER (CERES SYN1deg, 2001–2020; MERRA-2) |
| What is around | © OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL |
| Images | EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons |
| Sister atlases | Peakyas, Islandyas, Forestyas, Canyonyas, Cavernyas, Riveryas |
Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.
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