Silchester

Silchester is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Silchester is 944, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Silchester there are 452 males, and 492 females.

Location

Silchester is located at a Latitude of 51.349546 (51°20'58.36"N), and Longitude of -1.086485 (-1°5'11.35"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Silchester is an average of 80 metres34.

The elevation of Silchester ranges from a low point of about 55 metres, to a high point of about 114 metres.

Nearby to Silchester

Human settlements nearby to Silchester are Mortimer West End, Pamber, Bramley, and Stratfield Mortimer.

Woodland coverage of Silchester

Silchester has approximately 17% woodland coverage which is approximately 342.7 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Silchester

How much of Silchester is water? Well, Silchester has 0.06% water coverage, which is 1.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎