Bourton on the Water

Bourton-on-the-Water is a human settlement in Gloucestershire, England.

Population

The population of Bourton-on-the-Water is 3,521, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Bourton-on-the-Water there are 1,667 males, and 1,854 females.

Location

Bourton-on-the-Water is located at a Latitude of 51.875787 (51°52'32.83"N), and Longitude of -1.763744 (-1°45'49.48"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Bourton-on-the-Water is an average of 141 metres34.

The elevation of Bourton-on-the-Water ranges from a low point of about 101 metres, to a high point of about 240 metres.

Nearby to Bourton-on-the-Water

Human settlements nearby to Bourton-on-the-Water are Clapton, Lower Slaughter, Cold Aston, and Little Rissington.

Woodland coverage of Bourton-on-the-Water

Bourton-on-the-Water has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 30.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Bourton-on-the-Water

How much of Bourton-on-the-Water is water? Well, Bourton-on-the-Water has 3.14% water coverage, which is 82.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎