Sixpenny Handley

Sixpenny Handley is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Sixpenny Handley is 1,198, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Sixpenny Handley there are 572 males, and 626 females.

Location

Sixpenny Handley is located at a Latitude of 50.949477 (50°56'58.12"N), and Longitude of -2.025396 (-2°1'31.43"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Sixpenny Handley is an average of 94 metres34.

The elevation of Sixpenny Handley ranges from a low point of about 31 metres, to a high point of about 175 metres.

Nearby to Sixpenny Handley

Human settlements nearby to Sixpenny Handley are Farnham, Gussage St. Michael, Chettle, and Tollard Royal.

Woodland coverage of Sixpenny Handley

Sixpenny Handley has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 760.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Sixpenny Handley

How much of Sixpenny Handley is water? Well, Sixpenny Handley has 0.02% water coverage, which is 1.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎