The Gorge

The Gorge is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of The Gorge is 2,936, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In The Gorge there are 1,473 males, and 1,463 females.

Location

The Gorge is located at a Latitude of 52.634818 (52°38'5.35"N), and Longitude of -2.482552 (-2°28'57.19"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of The Gorge is an average of 104 metres34.

The elevation of The Gorge ranges from a low point of about 25 metres, to a high point of about 197 metres.

Nearby to The Gorge

Human settlements nearby to The Gorge are Dawley Hamlets, Madeley, Broseley, and Buildwas.

Woodland coverage of The Gorge

The Gorge has approximately 38% woodland coverage which is approximately 699.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of The Gorge

How much of The Gorge is water? Well, The Gorge has 3.03% water coverage, which is 55.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎