Great Horkesley

Great Horkesley is a human settlement in Essex, England.

Population

The population of Great Horkesley is 2,696, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Horkesley there are 1,337 males, and 1,359 females.

Location

Great Horkesley is located at a Latitude of 51.942351 (51°56'32.46"N), and Longitude of 0.872588 (0°52'21.32"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Horkesley is an average of 49 metres34.

The elevation of Great Horkesley ranges from a low point of about 9 metres, to a high point of about 84 metres.

Nearby to Great Horkesley

Human settlements nearby to Great Horkesley are Little Horkesley, Boxted, West Bergholt, and Myland.

Woodland coverage of Great Horkesley

Great Horkesley has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 198.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Horkesley

How much of Great Horkesley is water? Well, Great Horkesley has 0.91% water coverage, which is 28.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎