Thornton Le Moors

Thornton-le-Moors is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Thornton-le-Moors is 264, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thornton-le-Moors there are 137 males, and 127 females.

Location

Thornton-le-Moors is located at a Latitude of 53.259959 (53°15'35.85"N), and Longitude of -2.836773 (-2°50'12.38"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thornton-le-Moors is an average of 10 metres34.

The elevation of Thornton-le-Moors ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 31 metres.

Nearby to Thornton-le-Moors

Human settlements nearby to Thornton-le-Moors are Elton, Bridge Trafford, Picton, and Wimbolds Trafford.

Woodland coverage of Thornton-le-Moors

Thornton-le-Moors has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 7.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thornton-le-Moors

How much of Thornton-le-Moors is water? Well, Thornton-le-Moors has 0.51% water coverage, which is 5.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎