Melcombe Horsey

Melcombe Horsey is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Melcombe Horsey is 139, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Melcombe Horsey there are 66 males, and 73 females.

Location

Melcombe Horsey is located at a Latitude of 50.824526 (50°49'28.29"N), and Longitude of -2.356955 (-2°21'25.04"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Melcombe Horsey is an average of 150 metres34.

The elevation of Melcombe Horsey ranges from a low point of about 85 metres, to a high point of about 261 metres.

Nearby to Melcombe Horsey

Human settlements nearby to Melcombe Horsey are Hilton, Cheselbourne, Stoke Wake, and Mappowder.

Woodland coverage of Melcombe Horsey

Melcombe Horsey has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 416.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Melcombe Horsey

How much of Melcombe Horsey is water? Well, Melcombe Horsey has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎