Forncett

Forncett is a human settlement in Norfolk, England.

Population

The population of Forncett is 530, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Forncett there are 254 males, and 276 females.

Location

Forncett is located at a Latitude of 52.498788 (52°29'55.64"N), and Longitude of 1.180887 (1°10'51.19"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Forncett is an average of 42 metres34.

The elevation of Forncett ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 84 metres.

Nearby to Forncett

Human settlements nearby to Forncett are Tacolneston, Tharston and Hapton, Bunwell, and Wacton.

Woodland coverage of Forncett

Forncett has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 42.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Forncett

How much of Forncett is water? Well, Forncett has 0.01% 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. ↩︎ ↩︎