West Stour

West Stour is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of West Stour is 276, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Stour there are 129 males, and 147 females.

Location

West Stour is located at a Latitude of 51.000374 (51°0'1.35"N), and Longitude of -2.319595 (-2°19'10.54"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Stour is an average of 68 metres34.

The elevation of West Stour ranges from a low point of about 30 metres, to a high point of about 125 metres.

Nearby to West Stour

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

Woodland coverage of West Stour

West Stour has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 29.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Stour

How much of West Stour is water? Well, West Stour has 3.71% water coverage, which is 32.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎