Great Ashby

Great Ashby is a human settlement in Hertfordshire, England.

Population

The population of Great Ashby is 5,741, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Ashby there are 2,851 males, and 2,890 females.

Location

Great Ashby is located at a Latitude of 51.928718 (51°55'43.39"N), and Longitude of -0.1666 (0°9'59.76"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Ashby is an average of 136 metres34.

The elevation of Great Ashby ranges from a low point of about 105 metres, to a high point of about 170 metres.

Nearby to Great Ashby

Human settlements nearby to Great Ashby are Walkern, Graveley, Weston, and Wymondley.

Woodland coverage of Great Ashby

Great Ashby has approximately 29% woodland coverage which is approximately 83.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Ashby

How much of Great Ashby is water? Well, Great Ashby has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎