Whitwell and Selside

Whitwell and Selside is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Whitwell and Selside is 298, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whitwell and Selside there are 151 males, and 147 females.

Location

Whitwell and Selside is located at a Latitude of 54.423699 (54°25'25.32"N), and Longitude of -2.753349 (-2°45'12.05"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whitwell and Selside is an average of 323 metres34.

The elevation of Whitwell and Selside ranges from a low point of about 103 metres, to a high point of about 781 metres.

Nearby to Whitwell and Selside

Human settlements nearby to Whitwell and Selside are Fawcett Forest, Longsleddale, Over Staveley, and Strickland Roger.

Woodland coverage of Whitwell and Selside

Whitwell and Selside has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 716.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whitwell and Selside

How much of Whitwell and Selside is water? Well, Whitwell and Selside has 0.14% water coverage, which is 24.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎