West Bretton

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

Population

The population of West Bretton is 464, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Bretton there are 226 males, and 238 females.

Location

West Bretton is located at a Latitude of 53.620946 (53°37'15.41"N), and Longitude of -1.5694 (-1°34'9.84"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Bretton is an average of 110 metres34.

The elevation of West Bretton ranges from a low point of about 13 metres, to a high point of about 174 metres.

Nearby to West Bretton

Human settlements nearby to West Bretton are Sitlington, High Hoyland, Woolley, and Crigglestone.

Woodland coverage of West Bretton

West Bretton has approximately 21% woodland coverage which is approximately 511.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Bretton

How much of West Bretton is water? Well, West Bretton has 1.69% water coverage, which is 40.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎