Flax Bourton

Flax Bourton is a human settlement in South West, England.

Population

The population of Flax Bourton is 748, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Flax Bourton there are 376 males, and 372 females.

Location

Flax Bourton is located at a Latitude of 51.420803 (51°25'14.89"N), and Longitude of -2.706297 (-2°42'22.67"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Flax Bourton is an average of 41 metres34.

The elevation of Flax Bourton ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 160 metres.

Nearby to Flax Bourton

Human settlements nearby to Flax Bourton are Backwell, Barrow Gurney, Wraxall and Failand, and Long Ashton.

Woodland coverage of Flax Bourton

Flax Bourton has approximately 17% woodland coverage which is approximately 129.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Flax Bourton

How much of Flax Bourton is water? Well, Flax Bourton has 0.11% water coverage, which is 0.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎