Shap Rural

Shap Rural is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Shap Rural is 111, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Shap Rural there are 54 males, and 57 females.

Location

Shap Rural is located at a Latitude of 54.498024 (54°29'52.89"N), and Longitude of -2.733252 (-2°43'59.71"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Shap Rural is an average of 374 metres34.

The elevation of Shap Rural ranges from a low point of about 164 metres, to a high point of about 846 metres.

Nearby to Shap Rural

Human settlements nearby to Shap Rural are Shap, Bampton, Longsleddale, and Fawcett Forest.

Woodland coverage of Shap Rural

Shap Rural has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,160.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Shap Rural

How much of Shap Rural is water? Well, Shap Rural has 2.50% water coverage, which is 767.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎