Mersham

Mersham is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Mersham is 462, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Mersham there are 234 males, and 228 females.

Location

Mersham is located at a Latitude of 51.115958 (51°6'57.45"N), and Longitude of 0.920968 (0°55'15.49"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Mersham is an average of 50 metres34.

The elevation of Mersham ranges from a low point of about 20 metres, to a high point of about 89 metres.

Nearby to Mersham

Human settlements nearby to Mersham are Sevington, Smeeth, Aldington, and Kingsnorth.

Woodland coverage of Mersham

Mersham has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 197.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Mersham

How much of Mersham is water? Well, Mersham has 0.18% water coverage, which is 5.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎