Compton Abbas

Compton Abbas is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Compton Abbas is 204, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Compton Abbas there are 100 males, and 104 females.

Location

Compton Abbas is located at a Latitude of 50.969031 (50°58'8.51"N), and Longitude of -2.191914 (-2°11'30.89"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Compton Abbas is an average of 105 metres34.

The elevation of Compton Abbas ranges from a low point of about 40 metres, to a high point of about 265 metres.

Nearby to Compton Abbas

Human settlements nearby to Compton Abbas are Fontmell Magna, Melbury Abbas, Sutton Waldron, and Cann.

Woodland coverage of Compton Abbas

Compton Abbas has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 43.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Compton Abbas

How much of Compton Abbas is water? Well, Compton Abbas has 0.25% water coverage, which is 3.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎