West Buckfastleigh

West Buckfastleigh is a human settlement in Devon, England.

Population

The population of West Buckfastleigh is 293, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Buckfastleigh there are 154 males, and 139 females.

Location

West Buckfastleigh is located at a Latitude of 50.492068 (50°29'31.44"N), and Longitude of -3.8315 (-3°49'53.40"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Buckfastleigh is an average of 211 metres34.

The elevation of West Buckfastleigh ranges from a low point of about 23 metres, to a high point of about 515 metres.

Nearby to West Buckfastleigh

Human settlements nearby to West Buckfastleigh are Dean Prior, Holne, Buckfastleigh, and South Brent.

Woodland coverage of West Buckfastleigh

West Buckfastleigh has approximately 28% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,252.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Buckfastleigh

How much of West Buckfastleigh is water? Well, West Buckfastleigh has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎