Great Missenden

Great Missenden is a human settlement in Buckinghamshire, England.

Population

The population of Great Missenden is 9,960, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Missenden there are 4,847 males, and 5,113 females.

Location

Great Missenden is located at a Latitude of 51.701852 (51°42'6.67"N), and Longitude of -0.711045 (0°42'39.76"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Missenden is an average of 182 metres34.

The elevation of Great Missenden ranges from a low point of about 104 metres, to a high point of about 231 metres.

Nearby to Great Missenden

Human settlements nearby to Great Missenden are Little Missenden, The Lee, Great and Little Hampden, and Hughenden.

Woodland coverage of Great Missenden

Great Missenden has approximately 15% woodland coverage which is approximately 862.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Missenden

How much of Great Missenden is water? Well, Great Missenden has 0.10% water coverage, which is 5.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎