Melbury Abbas

Melbury Abbas is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Melbury Abbas is 301, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Melbury Abbas there are 147 males, and 154 females.

Location

Melbury Abbas is located at a Latitude of 50.979293 (50°58'45.46"N), and Longitude of -2.169816 (-2°10'11.34"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Melbury Abbas is an average of 147 metres34.

The elevation of Melbury Abbas ranges from a low point of about 59 metres, to a high point of about 283 metres.

Nearby to Melbury Abbas

Human settlements nearby to Melbury Abbas are Compton Abbas, Cann, Fontmell Magna, and Donhead St. Mary.

Woodland coverage of Melbury Abbas

Melbury Abbas has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 310.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Melbury Abbas

How much of Melbury Abbas is water? Well, Melbury Abbas has 0.30% water coverage, which is 7.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎