Winsham

Winsham is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Winsham is 737, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Winsham there are 341 males, and 396 females.

Location

Winsham is located at a Latitude of 50.862061 (50°51'43.42"N), and Longitude of -2.88878 (-2°53'19.61"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Winsham is an average of 136 metres34.

The elevation of Winsham ranges from a low point of about 53 metres, to a high point of about 239 metres.

Nearby to Winsham

Human settlements nearby to Winsham are Cricket St. Thomas, Wayford, Cudworth, and Chaffcombe.

Woodland coverage of Winsham

Winsham has approximately 11% woodland coverage which is approximately 340.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Winsham

How much of Winsham is water? Well, Winsham has 0.11% water coverage, which is 3.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎