Leigh on Mendip

Leigh-on-Mendip is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Leigh-on-Mendip is 562, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Leigh-on-Mendip there are 273 males, and 289 females.

Location

Leigh-on-Mendip is located at a Latitude of 51.226332 (51°13'34.80"N), and Longitude of -2.445725 (-2°26'44.61"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Leigh-on-Mendip is an average of 174 metres34.

The elevation of Leigh-on-Mendip ranges from a low point of about 96 metres, to a high point of about 249 metres.

Nearby to Leigh-on-Mendip

Human settlements nearby to Leigh-on-Mendip are Downhead, Coleford, Stoke St Michael, and Holcombe.

Woodland coverage of Leigh-on-Mendip

Leigh-on-Mendip has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 128.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Leigh-on-Mendip

How much of Leigh-on-Mendip is water? Well, Leigh-on-Mendip has 0.26% water coverage, which is 3.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎