Wotton Under Edge

Wotton-under-Edge is a human settlement in Gloucestershire, England.

Population

The population of Wotton-under-Edge is 5,632, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wotton-under-Edge there are 2,764 males, and 2,868 females.

Location

Wotton-under-Edge is located at a Latitude of 51.6461 (51°38'45.96"N), and Longitude of -2.332258 (-2°19'56.13"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wotton-under-Edge is an average of 166 metres34.

The elevation of Wotton-under-Edge ranges from a low point of about 20 metres, to a high point of about 263 metres.

Nearby to Wotton-under-Edge

Human settlements nearby to Wotton-under-Edge are Ozleworth, North Nibley, Alderley, and Dursley.

Woodland coverage of Wotton-under-Edge

Wotton-under-Edge has approximately 18% woodland coverage which is approximately 833.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wotton-under-Edge

How much of Wotton-under-Edge is water? Well, Wotton-under-Edge has 0.20% water coverage, which is 9.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎