Buckland Monachorum

Buckland Monachorum is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Buckland Monachorum is 3,800, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Buckland Monachorum there are 1,817 males, and 1,983 females.

Location

Buckland Monachorum is located at a Latitude of 50.486445 (50°29'11.20"N), and Longitude of -4.117769 (-4°7'3.97"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Buckland Monachorum is an average of 139 metres34.

The elevation of Buckland Monachorum ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 219 metres.

Nearby to Buckland Monachorum

Human settlements nearby to Buckland Monachorum are Horrabridge, Bickleigh, Meavy, and Bere Ferrers.

Woodland coverage of Buckland Monachorum

Buckland Monachorum has approximately 11% woodland coverage which is approximately 680.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Buckland Monachorum

How much of Buckland Monachorum is water? Well, Buckland Monachorum has 0.23% water coverage, which is 15.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎