Black Torrington

Black Torrington is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of Black Torrington is 528, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Black Torrington there are 263 males, and 265 females.

Location

Black Torrington is located at a Latitude of 50.812509 (50°48'45.03"N), and Longitude of -4.201557 (-4°12'5.60"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Black Torrington is an average of 123 metres34.

The elevation of Black Torrington ranges from a low point of about 54 metres, to a high point of about 209 metres.

Nearby to Black Torrington

Human settlements nearby to Black Torrington are Bradford, Highampton, Sheepwash, and Halwill.

Woodland coverage of Black Torrington

Black Torrington has approximately 29% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,596.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Black Torrington

How much of Black Torrington is water? Well, Black Torrington has 0.11% water coverage, which is 6.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎