Thurloxton

Thurloxton is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Thurloxton is 164, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thurloxton there are 83 males, and 81 females.

Location

Thurloxton is located at a Latitude of 51.066768 (51°4'0.37"N), and Longitude of -3.036659 (-3°2'11.97"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thurloxton is an average of 73 metres34.

The elevation of Thurloxton ranges from a low point of about 28 metres, to a high point of about 130 metres.

Nearby to Thurloxton

Human settlements nearby to Thurloxton are West Monkton, North Petherton, Durston, and Creech St. Michael.

Woodland coverage of Thurloxton

Thurloxton has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 22.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thurloxton

How much of Thurloxton is water? Well, Thurloxton has 0.29% water coverage, which is 1.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎