Ightenhill

Ightenhill is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Ightenhill is 1,890, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Ightenhill there are 911 males, and 979 females.

Location

Ightenhill is located at a Latitude of 53.805673 (53°48'20.42"N), and Longitude of -2.285783 (-2°17'8.82"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Ightenhill is an average of 111 metres34.

The elevation of Ightenhill ranges from a low point of about 60 metres, to a high point of about 173 metres.

Nearby to Ightenhill

Human settlements nearby to Ightenhill are Higham-with-West Close Booth, Padiham, Reedley Hallows, and Simonstone.

Woodland coverage of Ightenhill

Ightenhill has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 117.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Ightenhill

How much of Ightenhill is water? Well, Ightenhill has 0.02% water coverage, which is 0.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎