Thornton

Thornton is a human settlement in Buckinghamshire, England.

Population

The population of Thornton is 200, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thornton there are 77 males, and 123 females.

Location

Thornton is located at a Latitude of 52.013138 (52°0'47.30"N), and Longitude of -0.897255 (0°53'50.12"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thornton is an average of 95 metres34.

The elevation of Thornton ranges from a low point of about 56 metres, to a high point of about 134 metres.

Nearby to Thornton

Human settlements nearby to Thornton are Beachampton, Thornborough, Nash, and Wicken.

Woodland coverage of Thornton

Thornton has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 118.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thornton

How much of Thornton is water? Well, Thornton has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎