Firby

Firby is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Firby is 109, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Firby there are 57 males, and 52 females.

Location

Firby is located at a Latitude of 54.272616 (54°16'21.42"N), and Longitude of -1.596105 (-1°35'45.98"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Firby is an average of 34 metres34.

The elevation of Firby ranges from a low point of about 9 metres, to a high point of about 85 metres.

Nearby to Firby

Human settlements nearby to Firby are Bedale, Snape with Thorp, Rand Grange, and Burrill with Cowling.

Woodland coverage of Firby

Firby has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 35.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Firby

How much of Firby is water? Well, Firby has 0.41% water coverage, which is 3.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎