diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
index c71d8f7..2fdad66 100644
--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
 
 export(elevation_extract)
-export(elevations_get)
+export(elevation_get)
 export(plot_slope)
 export(sequential_dist)
 export(slope_3d)
diff --git a/R/slope_get.R b/R/slope_get.R
index 1f09a21..49843d1 100644
--- a/R/slope_get.R
+++ b/R/slope_get.R
@@ -8,12 +8,12 @@
 #' # time-consuming, and see
 #' # https://github.com/ITSLeeds/slopes/runs/648128378#step:18:107
 #' routes = cyclestreets_route
-#' # e = elevations_get(routes)
+#' # e = elevation_get(routes)
 #' # class(e)
 #' # e
 #' # plot(e)
 #' # plot(sf::st_geometry(routes), add = TRUE)
-elevations_get = function(routes, file = NULL, ...) {
+elevation_get = function(routes, file = NULL, ...) {
   if(requireNamespace("ceramic")) {
     mid_ext = sf_mid_ext_lonlat(routes)
     bw = max(c(mid_ext$width, mid_ext$height)) / 1 # buffer width
diff --git a/R/slopes.R b/R/slopes.R
index 400f29d..c49a4f1 100644
--- a/R/slopes.R
+++ b/R/slopes.R
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ slope_3d = function(
   terra = has_terra() && methods::is(dem, "SpatRaster")
   ) {
   if(is.null(dem)) {
-    dem = elevations_get(routes)
+    dem = elevation_get(routes)
     r_original = routes # create copy to deal with projection issues
     routes = sf::st_transform(routes, raster::crs(dem))
     suppressWarnings({sf::st_crs(routes) = sf::st_crs(r_original)})
diff --git a/man/elevations_get.Rd b/man/elevation_get.Rd
similarity index 85%
rename from man/elevations_get.Rd
rename to man/elevation_get.Rd
index b0e7d66..059d9d2 100644
--- a/man/elevations_get.Rd
+++ b/man/elevation_get.Rd
@@ -1,10 +1,10 @@
 % Generated by roxygen2: do not edit by hand
 % Please edit documentation in R/slope_get.R
-\name{elevations_get}
-\alias{elevations_get}
+\name{elevation_get}
+\alias{elevation_get}
 \title{Get elevation data from hosted maptile services}
 \usage{
-elevations_get(routes, file = NULL, ...)
+elevation_get(routes, file = NULL, ...)
 }
 \arguments{
 \item{routes}{Routes, the gradients of which are to be calculated.
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Get elevation data from hosted maptile services
 # time-consuming, and see
 # https://github.com/ITSLeeds/slopes/runs/648128378#step:18:107
 routes = cyclestreets_route
-# e = elevations_get(routes)
+# e = elevation_get(routes)
 # class(e)
 # e
 # plot(e)
diff --git a/tests/testthat/test-get.R b/tests/testthat/test-get.R
index 11a923b..2ed22ab 100644
--- a/tests/testthat/test-get.R
+++ b/tests/testthat/test-get.R
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ test_that("functions to get elevations from sf objects work", {
   if(nchar(Sys.getenv("MAPBOX_API_KEY")) < 8)
     skip(message = "Skipping test, MAPBOX token in .Renviron needed")
   r = cyclestreets_route
-  e = elevations_get(r)
+  e = elevation_get(r)
   expect_equal(class(e)[1], "RasterLayer")
 })