Kington Magna

Kington Magna is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Kington Magna is 351, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Kington Magna there are 170 males, and 181 females.

Location

Kington Magna is located at a Latitude of 51.003435 (51°0'12.37"N), and Longitude of -2.344481 (-2°20'40.13"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Kington Magna is an average of 59 metres34.

The elevation of Kington Magna ranges from a low point of about 24 metres, to a high point of about 142 metres.

Nearby to Kington Magna

Human settlements nearby to Kington Magna are West Stour, Buckhorn Weston, Fifehead Magdalen, and Henstridge.

Woodland coverage of Kington Magna

Kington Magna has approximately 2% woodland coverage which is approximately 35.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Kington Magna

How much of Kington Magna is water? Well, Kington Magna has 0.55% water coverage, which is 12.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎