Houghton Conquest

Houghton Conquest is a human settlement in East of England, England.

Population

The population of Houghton Conquest is 1,507, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Houghton Conquest there are 731 males, and 776 females.

Location

Houghton Conquest is located at a Latitude of 52.063383 (52°3'48.18"N), and Longitude of -0.47835 (0°28'42.06"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Houghton Conquest is an average of 50 metres34.

The elevation of Houghton Conquest ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 152 metres.

Nearby to Houghton Conquest

Human settlements nearby to Houghton Conquest are Stewartby, Wilshamstead, Ampthill, and Maulden.

Woodland coverage of Houghton Conquest

Houghton Conquest has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 199.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Houghton Conquest

How much of Houghton Conquest is water? Well, Houghton Conquest has 1.19% water coverage, which is 43.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎