Twiston

Twiston is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Twiston is 201, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Twiston there are 103 males, and 98 females.

Location

Twiston is located at a Latitude of 53.888776 (53°53'19.59"N), and Longitude of -2.279753 (-2°16'47.11"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Twiston is an average of 246 metres34.

The elevation of Twiston ranges from a low point of about 125 metres, to a high point of about 353 metres.

Nearby to Twiston

Human settlements nearby to Twiston are Downham, Rimington, Middop, and Barley-with-Wheatley Booth.

Woodland coverage of Twiston

Twiston has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 31.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Twiston

How much of Twiston is water? Well, Twiston has 0.18% water coverage, which is 1.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎