Medstead

Medstead is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Medstead is 1,421, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Medstead there are 697 males, and 724 females.

Location

Medstead is located at a Latitude of 51.124363 (51°7'27.71"N), and Longitude of -1.070141 (-1°4'12.51"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Medstead is an average of 189 metres34.

The elevation of Medstead ranges from a low point of about 124 metres, to a high point of about 228 metres.

Nearby to Medstead

Human settlements nearby to Medstead are Four Marks, Wield, Bighton, and Bentworth.

Woodland coverage of Medstead

Medstead has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 140.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Medstead

How much of Medstead is water? Well, Medstead has 0.03% water coverage, which is 0.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎