Great Paxton

Great Paxton is a human settlement in Cambridgeshire, England.

Population

The population of Great Paxton is 1,001, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Paxton there are 492 males, and 509 females.

Location

Great Paxton is located at a Latitude of 52.254599 (52°15'16.56"N), and Longitude of -0.225019 (0°13'30.07"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Paxton is an average of 28 metres34.

The elevation of Great Paxton ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 75 metres.

Nearby to Great Paxton

Human settlements nearby to Great Paxton are Toseland, Little Paxton, Offord Cluny and Offord D’Arcy, and Diddington.

Woodland coverage of Great Paxton

Great Paxton has approximately 2% woodland coverage which is approximately 29.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Paxton

How much of Great Paxton is water? Well, Great Paxton has 0.94% water coverage, which is 14.2 hectare of water5.

  1. Population values are aggregated by myself from the 178,605 census output areas in England, for the 2021 census of the United Kingdom, and are published on NOMIS official government census website. ↩︎

  2. location is the calculated centroid for geometries published by ONS Geography Linked Data portal. ↩︎

  3. From GDEM V3 (Global Digital Elevation Model V003) dataset I have sampled at a resolution of 13 million per degree latitude and degree longitude. In everyday terms the town of Andover, Hampshire is sampled approximately 45 thousand times. From my testing this is enough to pickup subtle changes in road elevation over small distances, such as a couple of house blocks. ↩︎

  4. The average listed is a median value for elevation samples recorded in the polygon for a given location. ↩︎

  5. Woodland, and water coverage calculated from OpenStreetMap data retrieved February 2024. ↩︎ ↩︎