Windermere and Bowness

Windermere and Bowness is a human settlement in Cumbria, England.

Population

The population of Windermere and Bowness is 7,676, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Windermere and Bowness there are 3,745 males, and 3,931 females.

Location

Windermere and Bowness is located at a Latitude of 54.377175 (54°22'37.83"N), and Longitude of -2.909817 (-2°54'35.34"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Windermere and Bowness is an average of 131 metres34.

The elevation of Windermere and Bowness ranges from a low point of about 21 metres, to a high point of about 696 metres.

Nearby to Windermere and Bowness

Human settlements nearby to Windermere and Bowness are Claife, Hugill, Crook, and Nether Staveley.

Woodland coverage of Windermere and Bowness

Windermere and Bowness has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,157.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Windermere and Bowness

How much of Windermere and Bowness is water? Well, Windermere and Bowness has 26.14% water coverage, which is 3,024.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎