High Melton

High Melton is a human settlement in Yorkshire and The Humber, England.

Population

The population of High Melton is 245, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In High Melton there are 113 males, and 132 females.

Location

High Melton is located at a Latitude of 53.517085 (53°31'1.50"N), and Longitude of -1.232033 (-1°13'55.32"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of High Melton is an average of 65 metres34.

The elevation of High Melton ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 119 metres.

Nearby to High Melton

Human settlements nearby to High Melton are Cadeby, Barnburgh, Marr, and Sprotbrough and Cusworth.

Woodland coverage of High Melton

High Melton has approximately 22% woodland coverage which is approximately 404.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of High Melton

How much of High Melton is water? Well, High Melton has 0.65% water coverage, which is 12.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎