Steep Holm
Steep Holm is an English island lying in the Bristol Channel. The island covers 48.87 acres at high tide, expanding to 63.26 acres at mean low water. At its highest point it is 78 metres above mean sea level.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Karlton15, Public domain.
- Type: Island
- Description: island in the Bristol Channel, United Kingdom
- Also known as: “Steep Holm Island” and “Steep Holme”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lavernock and Weston-super-Mare.
Lavernock
Hamlet
Photo: Ben Salter, CC BY 2.0.
Lavernock is a hamlet in the Vale of Glamorgan in Wales, lying on the coast 7 miles south of Cardiff between Penarth and Sully, and overlooking the Bristol Channel. Lavernock is situated 5 miles northwest of Steep Holm.
Weston-super-Mare
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Weston-super-Mare is a typical English seaside resort on the shore of the Bristol Channel, in the county of Somerset, approximately 25 mi south-west of Bristol, 35 miles west of Bath and 20 miles north of Bridgwater.
Uphill
Village
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Uphill is a village and former civil parish, now in the parish of Weston-super-Mare, in the North Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England, at the southern edge of the town, on the Bristol Channel coast. Uphill is situated 6 miles east of Steep Holm.
Steep Holm
- Categories: bird colony, Site of Special Scientific Interest, coastline, locality, and landform
- Location: North Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
51.33986° or 51° 20′ 24″ northLongitude
-3.10903° or 3° 6′ 33″ westElevation
233 feet (71 metres)Operator
Kenneth Allsop Memorial trustOpen location code
9C3R8VQR+W9OpenStreetMap ID
way 30782387OpenStreetMap feature
natural=coastlineOpenStreetMap feature
place=island
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Satellite Map
Discover Steep Holm from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Breton to Welsh—“Steep Holm” goes by many names.
- Breton: “Steep Holm”
- Cebuano: “Steep Holm”
- Chinese: “斯蒂普島”
- Danish: “Steep Holm”
- Dutch: “Steep Holm”
- Estonian: “Steep Holm”
- French: “Steep Holm”
- German: “Steep Holm”
- Hausa: “Babban Holm”
- Italian: “Steep Holm”
- Japanese: “スティープ・ホルム島”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Steep Holm”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Steep Holm”
- Norwegian: “Steep Holm”
- Polish: “Steep Holm”
- Swedish: “Steep Holm”
- Welsh: “Steep Holm”
- Welsh: “Ynys Rhonech”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Steep Holm”. Photo: Karlton15, Public domain.