West Monkton

West Monkton is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of West Monkton is 2,904, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Monkton there are 1,397 males, and 1,507 females.

Location

West Monkton is located at a Latitude of 51.046975 (51°2'49.11"N), and Longitude of -3.06282 (-3°3'46.15"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Monkton is an average of 45 metres34.

The elevation of West Monkton ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 188 metres.

Nearby to West Monkton

Human settlements nearby to West Monkton are Cheddon Fitzpaine, Creech St. Michael, Thurloxton, and Durston.

Woodland coverage of West Monkton

West Monkton has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 165.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Monkton

How much of West Monkton is water? Well, West Monkton has 0.66% water coverage, which is 18.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎