Forton

Forton is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Forton is 1,484, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Forton there are 708 males, and 776 females.

Location

Forton is located at a Latitude of 53.954733 (53°57'17.04"N), and Longitude of -2.783758 (-2°47'1.53"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Forton is an average of 28 metres34.

The elevation of Forton ranges from a low point of about 5 metres, to a high point of about 77 metres.

Nearby to Forton

Human settlements nearby to Forton are Cabus, Nether Wyresdale, Ellel, and Cockerham.

Woodland coverage of Forton

Forton has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 115.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Forton

How much of Forton is water? Well, Forton has 0.28% water coverage, which is 7.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎