Melbury Osmond

Melbury Osmond is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Melbury Osmond is 204, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Melbury Osmond there are 103 males, and 101 females.

Location

Melbury Osmond is located at a Latitude of 50.871261 (50°52'16.54"N), and Longitude of -2.610236 (-2°36'36.85"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Melbury Osmond is an average of 81 metres34.

The elevation of Melbury Osmond ranges from a low point of about 40 metres, to a high point of about 122 metres.

Nearby to Melbury Osmond

Human settlements nearby to Melbury Osmond are Stockwood, Melbury Sampford, Ryme Intrinseca, and East Chelborough.

Woodland coverage of Melbury Osmond

Melbury Osmond has approximately 14% woodland coverage which is approximately 172.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Melbury Osmond

How much of Melbury Osmond is water? Well, Melbury Osmond has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎