Compton and Shawford

Compton and Shawford is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Compton and Shawford is 1,723, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Compton and Shawford there are 839 males, and 884 females.

Location

Compton and Shawford is located at a Latitude of 51.02735 (51°1'38.46"N), and Longitude of -1.340907 (-1°20'27.27"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Compton and Shawford is an average of 65 metres34.

The elevation of Compton and Shawford ranges from a low point of about 17 metres, to a high point of about 135 metres.

Nearby to Compton and Shawford

Human settlements nearby to Compton and Shawford are Olivers Battery, Badger Farm, Twyford, and Otterbourne.

Woodland coverage of Compton and Shawford

Compton and Shawford has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 284.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Compton and Shawford

How much of Compton and Shawford is water? Well, Compton and Shawford has 0.10% water coverage, which is 2.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎