Great Eccleston

Great Eccleston is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Great Eccleston is 1,141, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Eccleston there are 535 males, and 606 females.

Location

Great Eccleston is located at a Latitude of 53.851691 (53°51'6.09"N), and Longitude of -2.86193 (-2°51'42.95"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Eccleston is an average of 9 metres34.

The elevation of Great Eccleston ranges from a low point of about 3 metres, to a high point of about 28 metres.

Nearby to Great Eccleston

Human settlements nearby to Great Eccleston are Elswick, Upper Rawcliffe-with-Tarnacre, Inskip-with-Sowerby, and Out Rawcliffe.

Woodland coverage of Great Eccleston

Great Eccleston has approximately 0% woodland coverage which is approximately 2.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Eccleston

How much of Great Eccleston is water? Well, Great Eccleston has 0.14% water coverage, which is 2.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎