Winterborne Houghton

Winterborne Houghton is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of Winterborne Houghton is 171, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Winterborne Houghton there are 77 males, and 94 females.

Location

Winterborne Houghton is located at a Latitude of 50.843877 (50°50'37.96"N), and Longitude of -2.273717 (-2°16'25.38"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Winterborne Houghton is an average of 186 metres34.

The elevation of Winterborne Houghton ranges from a low point of about 94 metres, to a high point of about 279 metres.

Nearby to Winterborne Houghton

Human settlements nearby to Winterborne Houghton are Winterborne Stickland, Turnworth, Ibberton, and Milton Abbas.

Woodland coverage of Winterborne Houghton

Winterborne Houghton has approximately 19% woodland coverage which is approximately 386.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Winterborne Houghton

How much of Winterborne Houghton is water? Well, Winterborne Houghton has 0.07% water coverage, which is 1.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎