Shottle and Postern

Shottle and Postern is a human settlement in Derbyshire, England.

Population

The population of Shottle and Postern is 270, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shottle and Postern there are 144 males, and 126 females.

Location

Shottle and Postern is located at a Latitude of 53.033708 (53°2'1.35"N), and Longitude of -1.537577 (-1°32'15.28"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shottle and Postern is an average of 144 metres34.

The elevation of Shottle and Postern ranges from a low point of about 54 metres, to a high point of about 279 metres.

Nearby to Shottle and Postern

Human settlements nearby to Shottle and Postern are Turnditch, Idridgehay and Alton, Ashleyhay, and Hazelwood.

Woodland coverage of Shottle and Postern

Shottle and Postern has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 251.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shottle and Postern

How much of Shottle and Postern is water? Well, Shottle and Postern has 0.10% water coverage, which is 4.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎