Brotherton

Brotherton is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Brotherton is 742, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Brotherton there are 362 males, and 380 females.

Location

Brotherton is located at a Latitude of 53.728065 (53°43'41.03"N), and Longitude of -1.266988 (-1°16'1.16"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Brotherton is an average of 14 metres34.

The elevation of Brotherton ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 82 metres.

Nearby to Brotherton

Human settlements nearby to Brotherton are Byram cum Sutton, Burton Salmon, Fairburn, and Hillam.

Woodland coverage of Brotherton

Brotherton has approximately 14% woodland coverage which is approximately 149.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Brotherton

How much of Brotherton is water? Well, Brotherton has 11.57% water coverage, which is 123.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎