West Knighton

West Knighton is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of West Knighton is 383, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Knighton there are 186 males, and 197 females.

Location

West Knighton is located at a Latitude of 50.695257 (50°41'42.93"N), and Longitude of -2.372655 (-2°22'21.56"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Knighton is an average of 54 metres34.

The elevation of West Knighton ranges from a low point of about 14 metres, to a high point of about 97 metres.

Nearby to West Knighton

Human settlements nearby to West Knighton are West Stafford, Warmwell, Whitcombe, and Broadmayne.

Woodland coverage of West Knighton

West Knighton has approximately 11% woodland coverage which is approximately 182.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Knighton

How much of West Knighton is water? Well, West Knighton has 1.08% water coverage, which is 17.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎