Woodchester

Woodchester is a human settlement in Gloucestershire, England.

Population

The population of Woodchester is 1,245, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Woodchester there are 610 males, and 635 females.

Location

Woodchester is located at a Latitude of 51.715449 (51°42'55.62"N), and Longitude of -2.247114 (-2°14'49.61"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Woodchester is an average of 137 metres34.

The elevation of Woodchester ranges from a low point of about 36 metres, to a high point of about 235 metres.

Nearby to Woodchester

Human settlements nearby to Woodchester are King’s Stanley, Nailsworth, Rodborough, and Nympsfield.

Woodland coverage of Woodchester

Woodchester has approximately 28% woodland coverage which is approximately 370.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Woodchester

How much of Woodchester is water? Well, Woodchester has 0.99% water coverage, which is 13.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎