Breedon on the Hill

Breedon on the Hill is a human settlement in Leicestershire, England.

Population

The population of Breedon on the Hill is 1,099, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Breedon on the Hill there are 569 males, and 530 females.

Location

Breedon on the Hill is located at a Latitude of 52.802796 (52°48'10.07"N), and Longitude of -1.388959 (-1°23'20.25"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Breedon on the Hill is an average of 77 metres34.

The elevation of Breedon on the Hill ranges from a low point of about 4 metres, to a high point of about 164 metres.

Nearby to Breedon on the Hill

Human settlements nearby to Breedon on the Hill are Isley cum Langley, Worthington, Melbourne, and Staunton Harold.

Woodland coverage of Breedon on the Hill

Breedon on the Hill has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 282.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Breedon on the Hill

How much of Breedon on the Hill is water? Well, Breedon on the Hill has 0.01% water coverage, which is 0.4 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. ↩︎ ↩︎