Speldhurst

Speldhurst is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Speldhurst is 4,949, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Speldhurst there are 2,401 males, and 2,548 females.

Location

Speldhurst is located at a Latitude of 51.134501 (51°8'4.20"N), and Longitude of 0.199567 (0°11'58.44"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Speldhurst is an average of 98 metres34.

The elevation of Speldhurst ranges from a low point of about 20 metres, to a high point of about 149 metres.

Nearby to Speldhurst

Human settlements nearby to Speldhurst are Rusthall, Penshurst, Bidborough, and Southborough.

Woodland coverage of Speldhurst

Speldhurst has approximately 21% woodland coverage which is approximately 864.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Speldhurst

How much of Speldhurst is water? Well, Speldhurst has 0.22% water coverage, which is 9.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎