Compton Bishop

Compton Bishop is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Compton Bishop is 623, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Compton Bishop there are 301 males, and 322 females.

Location

Compton Bishop is located at a Latitude of 51.291363 (51°17'28.91"N), and Longitude of -2.857524 (-2°51'27.09"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Compton Bishop is an average of 15 metres34.

The elevation of Compton Bishop ranges from a low point of about 2 metres, to a high point of about 204 metres.

Nearby to Compton Bishop

Human settlements nearby to Compton Bishop are Axbridge, Badgworth, Weare, and Winscombe and Sandford.

Woodland coverage of Compton Bishop

Compton Bishop has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 130.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Compton Bishop

How much of Compton Bishop is water? Well, Compton Bishop has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎