Penshurst

Penshurst is a human settlement in Kent, England.

Population

The population of Penshurst is 1,688, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Penshurst there are 833 males, and 855 females.

Location

Penshurst is located at a Latitude of 51.15984 (51°9'35.42"N), and Longitude of 0.178099 (0°10'41.16"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Penshurst is an average of 51 metres34.

The elevation of Penshurst ranges from a low point of about 17 metres, to a high point of about 147 metres.

Nearby to Penshurst

Human settlements nearby to Penshurst are Speldhurst, Bidborough, Chiddingstone, and Leigh.

Woodland coverage of Penshurst

Penshurst has approximately 13% woodland coverage which is approximately 541.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Penshurst

How much of Penshurst is water? Well, Penshurst has 0.30% water coverage, which is 12.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎