Great Boughton

Great Boughton is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Great Boughton is 8,547, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Boughton there are 4,091 males, and 4,456 females.

Location

Great Boughton is located at a Latitude of 53.189434 (53°11'21.96"N), and Longitude of -2.858824 (-2°51'31.77"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Boughton is an average of 19 metres34.

The elevation of Great Boughton ranges from a low point of about 4 metres, to a high point of about 62 metres.

Nearby to Great Boughton

Human settlements nearby to Great Boughton are Littleton, Chester Castle, Rowton, and Hoole Village.

Woodland coverage of Great Boughton

Great Boughton has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 32.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Boughton

How much of Great Boughton is water? Well, Great Boughton has 0.40% water coverage, which is 2.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎