Otterford

Otterford is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Otterford is 391, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Otterford there are 202 males, and 189 females.

Location

Otterford is located at a Latitude of 50.92482 (50°55'29.35"N), and Longitude of -3.094719 (-3°5'40.99"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Otterford is an average of 252 metres34.

The elevation of Otterford ranges from a low point of about 138 metres, to a high point of about 320 metres.

Nearby to Otterford

Human settlements nearby to Otterford are Buckland St Mary, Churchstanton, Staple Fitzpaine, and Corfe.

Woodland coverage of Otterford

Otterford has approximately 24% woodland coverage which is approximately 597.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Otterford

How much of Otterford is water? Well, Otterford has 0.11% water coverage, which is 2.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎