Morchard Bishop

Morchard Bishop is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Morchard Bishop is 1,041, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Morchard Bishop there are 502 males, and 539 females.

Location

Morchard Bishop is located at a Latitude of 50.852535 (50°51'9.13"N), and Longitude of -3.746179 (-3°44'46.25"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Morchard Bishop is an average of 132 metres34.

The elevation of Morchard Bishop ranges from a low point of about 57 metres, to a high point of about 197 metres.

Nearby to Morchard Bishop

Human settlements nearby to Morchard Bishop are Lapford, Down St. Mary, and Kennerleigh.

Woodland coverage of Morchard Bishop

Morchard Bishop has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 671.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Morchard Bishop

How much of Morchard Bishop is water? Well, Morchard Bishop has 0.05% water coverage, which is 4.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎