Priors Heys

Prior’s Heys is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Prior’s Heys is 443, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Prior’s Heys there are 208 males, and 235 females.

Location

Prior’s Heys is located at a Latitude of 53.187959 (53°11'16.65"N), and Longitude of -2.709117 (-2°42'32.82"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Prior’s Heys is an average of 43 metres34.

The elevation of Prior’s Heys ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 163 metres.

Nearby to Prior’s Heys

Human settlements nearby to Prior’s Heys are Duddon, Willington, Clotton Hoofield, and Kelsall.

Woodland coverage of Prior’s Heys

Prior’s Heys has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 99.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Prior’s Heys

How much of Prior’s Heys is water? Well, Prior’s Heys has 0.25% water coverage, which is 4.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎