St. Giles in the Wood

St. Giles in the Wood is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of St. Giles in the Wood is 547, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In St. Giles in the Wood there are 275 males, and 272 females.

Location

St. Giles in the Wood is located at a Latitude of 50.952845 (50°57'10.24"N), and Longitude of -4.086267 (-4°5'10.56"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of St. Giles in the Wood is an average of 124 metres34.

The elevation of St. Giles in the Wood ranges from a low point of about 8 metres, to a high point of about 210 metres.

Nearby to St. Giles in the Wood

Human settlements nearby to St. Giles in the Wood are Great Torrington, Beaford, Roborough, and Yarnscombe.

Woodland coverage of St. Giles in the Wood

St. Giles in the Wood has approximately 15% woodland coverage which is approximately 763.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of St. Giles in the Wood

How much of St. Giles in the Wood is water? Well, St. Giles in the Wood has 0.12% water coverage, which is 6.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎