Pitminster

Pitminster is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Pitminster is 1,005, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Pitminster there are 518 males, and 487 females.

Location

Pitminster is located at a Latitude of 50.962706 (50°57'45.74"N), and Longitude of -3.126135 (-3°7'34.09"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Pitminster is an average of 100 metres34.

The elevation of Pitminster ranges from a low point of about 17 metres, to a high point of about 302 metres.

Nearby to Pitminster

Human settlements nearby to Pitminster are Corfe, Trull, West Buckland, and Comeytrowe.

Woodland coverage of Pitminster

Pitminster has approximately 22% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,117.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Pitminster

How much of Pitminster is water? Well, Pitminster has 0.64% water coverage, which is 32.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎