Cerne Abbas

Cerne Abbas is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Cerne Abbas is 866, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Cerne Abbas there are 382 males, and 484 females.

Location

Cerne Abbas is located at a Latitude of 50.805732 (50°48'20.64"N), and Longitude of -2.477236 (-2°28'38.05"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Cerne Abbas is an average of 161 metres34.

The elevation of Cerne Abbas ranges from a low point of about 28 metres, to a high point of about 258 metres.

Nearby to Cerne Abbas

Human settlements nearby to Cerne Abbas are Nether Cerne, Up Cerne, Sydling St. Nicholas, and Godmanstone.

Woodland coverage of Cerne Abbas

Cerne Abbas has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 225.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Cerne Abbas

How much of Cerne Abbas is water? Well, Cerne Abbas has 0.10% water coverage, which is 3.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎