Great Witchingham

Great Witchingham is a human settlement in Norfolk, England.

Population

The population of Great Witchingham is 542, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Great Witchingham there are 274 males, and 268 females.

Location

Great Witchingham is located at a Latitude of 52.734078 (52°44'2.68"N), and Longitude of 1.108274 (1°6'29.79"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Great Witchingham is an average of 26 metres34.

The elevation of Great Witchingham ranges from a low point of about 10 metres, to a high point of about 63 metres.

Nearby to Great Witchingham

Human settlements nearby to Great Witchingham are Little Witchingham, Alderford, Sparham, and Booton.

Woodland coverage of Great Witchingham

Great Witchingham has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 198.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Great Witchingham

How much of Great Witchingham is water? Well, Great Witchingham has 3.55% water coverage, which is 88.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎