Charnock Richard

Charnock Richard is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Charnock Richard is 1,814, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Charnock Richard there are 911 males, and 903 females.

Location

Charnock Richard is located at a Latitude of 53.637386 (53°38'14.59"N), and Longitude of -2.680713 (-2°40'50.57"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Charnock Richard is an average of 68 metres34.

The elevation of Charnock Richard ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 133 metres.

Nearby to Charnock Richard

Human settlements nearby to Charnock Richard are Heskin, Coppull, Eccleston, and Euxton.

Woodland coverage of Charnock Richard

Charnock Richard has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 278.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Charnock Richard

How much of Charnock Richard is water? Well, Charnock Richard has 0.47% water coverage, which is 13.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎