Shipham

Shipham is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Shipham is 1,104, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shipham there are 547 males, and 557 females.

Location

Shipham is located at a Latitude of 51.315582 (51°18'56.09"N), and Longitude of -2.791224 (-2°47'28.41"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shipham is an average of 154 metres34.

The elevation of Shipham ranges from a low point of about 42 metres, to a high point of about 290 metres.

Nearby to Shipham

Human settlements nearby to Shipham are Churchill, Burrington, Winscombe and Sandford, and Axbridge.

Woodland coverage of Shipham

Shipham has approximately 35% woodland coverage which is approximately 653.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shipham

How much of Shipham is water? Well, Shipham has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎