Whittle Le Woods

Whittle-le-Woods is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Whittle-le-Woods is 5,312, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whittle-le-Woods there are 2,641 males, and 2,671 females.

Location

Whittle-le-Woods is located at a Latitude of 53.68336 (53°41'0.10"N), and Longitude of -2.633289 (-2°37'59.84"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whittle-le-Woods is an average of 91 metres34.

The elevation of Whittle-le-Woods ranges from a low point of about 44 metres, to a high point of about 141 metres.

Nearby to Whittle-le-Woods

Human settlements nearby to Whittle-le-Woods are Clayton-le-Woods, Astley Village, Heapey, and Euxton.

Woodland coverage of Whittle-le-Woods

Whittle-le-Woods has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 108.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whittle-le-Woods

How much of Whittle-le-Woods is water? Well, Whittle-le-Woods has 1.08% water coverage, which is 16.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎