Barrowford

Barrowford is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Barrowford is 5,976, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Barrowford there are 2,906 males, and 3,070 females.

Location

Barrowford is located at a Latitude of 53.852644 (53°51'9.52"N), and Longitude of -2.221829 (-2°13'18.58"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Barrowford is an average of 159 metres34.

The elevation of Barrowford ranges from a low point of about 100 metres, to a high point of about 263 metres.

Nearby to Barrowford

Human settlements nearby to Barrowford are Roughlee Booth, Blacko, Old Laund Booth, and Nelson.

Woodland coverage of Barrowford

Barrowford has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 45.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Barrowford

How much of Barrowford is water? Well, Barrowford has 1.74% water coverage, which is 26.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎