Thornton on the Hill

Thornton-on-the-Hill is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Thornton-on-the-Hill is 133, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thornton-on-the-Hill there are 66 males, and 67 females.

Location

Thornton-on-the-Hill is located at a Latitude of 54.155591 (54°9'20.13"N), and Longitude of -1.181329 (-1°10'52.79"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thornton-on-the-Hill is an average of 75 metres34.

The elevation of Thornton-on-the-Hill ranges from a low point of about 27 metres, to a high point of about 150 metres.

Nearby to Thornton-on-the-Hill

Human settlements nearby to Thornton-on-the-Hill are Husthwaite, Oulston, Angram Grange, and Newburgh.

Woodland coverage of Thornton-on-the-Hill

Thornton-on-the-Hill has approximately 0% woodland coverage which is approximately 4.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thornton-on-the-Hill

How much of Thornton-on-the-Hill is water? Well, Thornton-on-the-Hill has 0.18% water coverage, which is 2.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎