West Firsby

West Firsby is a human settlement in Lincolnshire, England.

Population

The population of West Firsby is 384, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Firsby there are 192 males, and 192 females.

Location

West Firsby is located at a Latitude of 53.355378 (53°21'19.36"N), and Longitude of -0.500729 (0°30'2.62"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Firsby is an average of 25 metres34.

The elevation of West Firsby ranges from a low point of about 8 metres, to a high point of about 71 metres.

Nearby to West Firsby

Human settlements nearby to West Firsby are Saxby, Spridlington, Owmby-by-Spital, and Normanby by Spital.

Woodland coverage of West Firsby

West Firsby has approximately 4% woodland coverage which is approximately 53.0 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Firsby

How much of West Firsby is water? Well, West Firsby has 0.26% water coverage, which is 3.6 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. ↩︎ ↩︎