Bishops Waltham

Bishops Waltham is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Bishops Waltham is 6,955, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Bishops Waltham there are 3,296 males, and 3,659 females.

Location

Bishops Waltham is located at a Latitude of 50.962241 (50°57'44.07"N), and Longitude of -1.211066 (-1°12'39.84"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Bishops Waltham is an average of 60 metres34.

The elevation of Bishops Waltham ranges from a low point of about 17 metres, to a high point of about 134 metres.

Nearby to Bishops Waltham

Human settlements nearby to Bishops Waltham are Upham, Swanmore, Durley, and Droxford.

Woodland coverage of Bishops Waltham

Bishops Waltham has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 293.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Bishops Waltham

How much of Bishops Waltham is water? Well, Bishops Waltham has 0.21% water coverage, which is 10.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎