Preston Under Scar

Preston-under-Scar is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Preston-under-Scar is 169, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Preston-under-Scar there are 79 males, and 90 females.

Location

Preston-under-Scar is located at a Latitude of 54.327917 (54°19'40.50"N), and Longitude of -1.89532 (-1°53'43.15"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Preston-under-Scar is an average of 320 metres34.

The elevation of Preston-under-Scar ranges from a low point of about 103 metres, to a high point of about 450 metres.

Nearby to Preston-under-Scar

Human settlements nearby to Preston-under-Scar are Redmire, Wensley, Leyburn, and Ellerton Abbey.

Woodland coverage of Preston-under-Scar

Preston-under-Scar has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 325.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Preston-under-Scar

How much of Preston-under-Scar is water? Well, Preston-under-Scar has 0.07% water coverage, which is 2.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎