Brighstone

Brighstone is a human settlement in South East, England.

Population

The population of Brighstone is 1,584, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Brighstone there are 731 males, and 853 females.

Location

Brighstone is located at a Latitude of 50.646993 (50°38'49.18"N), and Longitude of -1.409364 (-1°24'33.71"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Brighstone is an average of 45 metres34.

The elevation of Brighstone ranges from a low point of about 0 metres, to a high point of about 223 metres.

Nearby to Brighstone

Human settlements nearby to Brighstone are Shorwell, Calbourne, Newtown and Porchfield, Shalfleet, and Yarmouth.

Woodland coverage of Brighstone

Brighstone has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 642.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Brighstone

How much of Brighstone is water? Well, Brighstone has 0.18% water coverage, which is 8.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎