Grimston

Grimston is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Grimston is 144, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Grimston there are 67 males, and 77 females.

Location

Grimston is located at a Latitude of 53.867402 (53°52'2.65"N), and Longitude of -1.254581 (-1°15'16.49"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Grimston is an average of 12 metres34.

The elevation of Grimston ranges from a low point of about 4 metres, to a high point of about 52 metres.

Nearby to Grimston

Human settlements nearby to Grimston are Oxton, Kirkby Wharfe with North Milford, Towton, and Tadcaster.

Woodland coverage of Grimston

Grimston has approximately 22% woodland coverage which is approximately 244.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Grimston

How much of Grimston is water? Well, Grimston has 0.92% water coverage, which is 10.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎