Alton Pancras

Alton Pancras is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Alton Pancras is 140, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Alton Pancras there are 65 males, and 75 females.

Location

Alton Pancras is located at a Latitude of 50.824544 (50°49'28.36"N), and Longitude of -2.429545 (-2°25'46.36"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Alton Pancras is an average of 159 metres34.

The elevation of Alton Pancras ranges from a low point of about 75 metres, to a high point of about 252 metres.

Nearby to Alton Pancras

Human settlements nearby to Alton Pancras are Piddletrenthide, Buckland Newton, Cerne Abbas, and Minterne Magna.

Woodland coverage of Alton Pancras

Alton Pancras has approximately 10% woodland coverage which is approximately 221.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Alton Pancras

How much of Alton Pancras is water? Well, Alton Pancras has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎