Kirkby Thore

Kirkby Thore is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Kirkby Thore is 765, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kirkby Thore there are 384 males, and 381 females.

Location

Kirkby Thore is located at a Latitude of 54.632009 (54°37'55.23"N), and Longitude of -2.556152 (-2°33'22.15"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kirkby Thore is an average of 132 metres34.

The elevation of Kirkby Thore ranges from a low point of about 86 metres, to a high point of about 215 metres.

Nearby to Kirkby Thore

Human settlements nearby to Kirkby Thore are Bolton, Crackenthorpe, Long Marton, and Morland.

Woodland coverage of Kirkby Thore

Kirkby Thore has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 124.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kirkby Thore

How much of Kirkby Thore is water? Well, Kirkby Thore has 0.31% water coverage, which is 9.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎