Fontmell Magna

Fontmell Magna is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Fontmell Magna is 676, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Fontmell Magna there are 333 males, and 343 females.

Location

Fontmell Magna is located at a Latitude of 50.959395 (50°57'33.82"N), and Longitude of -2.199503 (-2°11'58.21"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Fontmell Magna is an average of 85 metres34.

The elevation of Fontmell Magna ranges from a low point of about 23 metres, to a high point of about 245 metres.

Nearby to Fontmell Magna

Human settlements nearby to Fontmell Magna are Compton Abbas, Sutton Waldron, East Orchard, and Melbury Abbas.

Woodland coverage of Fontmell Magna

Fontmell Magna has approximately 12% woodland coverage which is approximately 347.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Fontmell Magna

How much of Fontmell Magna is water? Well, Fontmell Magna has 0.33% water coverage, which is 9.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎