Hamsey

Hamsey is a human settlement in East Sussex, England.

Population

The population of Hamsey is 734, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Hamsey there are 363 males, and 371 females.

Location

Hamsey is located at a Latitude of 50.901515 (50°54'5.45"N), and Longitude of -0.010266 (0°0'36.96"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Hamsey is an average of 30 metres34.

The elevation of Hamsey ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 202 metres.

Nearby to Hamsey

Human settlements nearby to Hamsey are St. John (Without), East Chiltington, Lewes, and St. Ann (Without).

Woodland coverage of Hamsey

Hamsey has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 361.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Hamsey

How much of Hamsey is water? Well, Hamsey has 0.22% water coverage, which is 6.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎