Orlestone

Orlestone is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Orlestone is 1,593, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Orlestone there are 769 males, and 824 females.

Location

Orlestone is located at a Latitude of 51.071775 (51°4'18.39"N), and Longitude of 0.851039 (0°51'3.74"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Orlestone is an average of 37 metres34.

The elevation of Orlestone ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 72 metres.

Nearby to Orlestone

Human settlements nearby to Orlestone are Warehorne, Ruckinge, Kenardington, and Shadoxhurst.

Woodland coverage of Orlestone

Orlestone has approximately 38% woodland coverage which is approximately 759.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Orlestone

How much of Orlestone is water? Well, Orlestone has 0.03% water coverage, which is 0.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎