Messingham

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

Population

The population of Messingham is 3,563, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Messingham there are 1,753 males, and 1,810 females.

Location

Messingham is located at a Latitude of 53.535456 (53°32'7.64"N), and Longitude of -0.649731 (0°38'59.03"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Messingham is an average of 17 metres34.

The elevation of Messingham ranges from a low point of about 1 metres, to a high point of about 91 metres.

Nearby to Messingham

Human settlements nearby to Messingham are Bottesford, Manton, Scotter, and Ashby Parkland.

Woodland coverage of Messingham

Messingham has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,208.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Messingham

How much of Messingham is water? Well, Messingham has 1.76% water coverage, which is 177.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎