Lydford on Fosse

Lydford-on-Fosse is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Lydford-on-Fosse is 531, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Lydford-on-Fosse there are 269 males, and 262 females.

Location

Lydford-on-Fosse is located at a Latitude of 51.083723 (51°5'1.40"N), and Longitude of -2.616621 (-2°36'59.84"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Lydford-on-Fosse is an average of 24 metres34.

The elevation of Lydford-on-Fosse ranges from a low point of about 6 metres, to a high point of about 66 metres.

Nearby to Lydford-on-Fosse

Human settlements nearby to Lydford-on-Fosse are Lovington, Keinton Mandeville, Barton St. David, and Babcary.

Woodland coverage of Lydford-on-Fosse

Lydford-on-Fosse has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 108.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Lydford-on-Fosse

How much of Lydford-on-Fosse is water? Well, Lydford-on-Fosse has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎