Porlock

Porlock is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Porlock is 1,406, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Porlock there are 661 males, and 745 females.

Location

Porlock is located at a Latitude of 51.20405 (51°12'14.58"N), and Longitude of -3.6379 (-3°38'16.44"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Porlock is an average of 295 metres34.

The elevation of Porlock ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 466 metres.

Nearby to Porlock

Human settlements nearby to Porlock are Luccombe, Oare, Selworthy, and Exford.

Woodland coverage of Porlock

Porlock has approximately 28% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,472.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Porlock

How much of Porlock is water? Well, Porlock has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎