Elswick

Elswick is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Elswick is 1,048, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Elswick there are 518 males, and 530 females.

Location

Elswick is located at a Latitude of 53.837635 (53°50'15.49"N), and Longitude of -2.882111 (-2°52'55.60"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Elswick is an average of 12 metres34.

The elevation of Elswick ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 26 metres.

Nearby to Elswick

Human settlements nearby to Elswick are Great Eccleston, Greenhalgh-with-Thistleton, Medlar-with-Wesham, and Inskip-with-Sowerby.

Woodland coverage of Elswick

Elswick has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 17.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Elswick

How much of Elswick is water? Well, Elswick has 0.31% water coverage, which is 3.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎