Foston and Scropton

Foston and Scropton is a human settlement in Derbyshire, England.

Population

The population of Foston and Scropton is 758, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Foston and Scropton there are 290 males, and 468 females.

Location

Foston and Scropton is located at a Latitude of 52.879385 (52°52'45.78"N), and Longitude of -1.716181 (-1°42'58.25"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Foston and Scropton is an average of 58 metres34.

The elevation of Foston and Scropton ranges from a low point of about 25 metres, to a high point of about 106 metres.

Nearby to Foston and Scropton

Human settlements nearby to Foston and Scropton are Church Broughton, Hatton, Hoon, and Tutbury.

Woodland coverage of Foston and Scropton

Foston and Scropton has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 238.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Foston and Scropton

How much of Foston and Scropton is water? Well, Foston and Scropton has 1.36% water coverage, which is 44.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎