Wolsingham

Wolsingham is a human settlement in North East, England.

Population

The population of Wolsingham is 2,631, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Wolsingham there are 1,267 males, and 1,364 females.

Location

Wolsingham is located at a Latitude of 54.733731 (54°44'1.43"N), and Longitude of -1.881587 (-1°52'53.71"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Wolsingham is an average of 267 metres34.

The elevation of Wolsingham ranges from a low point of about 81 metres, to a high point of about 435 metres.

Nearby to Wolsingham

Human settlements nearby to Wolsingham are Tow Law, Wolsingham Park Moor lands cmn to Stanhope, Tow Law and Wolsingham, Lands common to Hamsterley, Lynesack and Softley and South Bedburn, and Satley.

Woodland coverage of Wolsingham

Wolsingham has approximately 9% woodland coverage which is approximately 2,406.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Wolsingham

How much of Wolsingham is water? Well, Wolsingham has 0.73% water coverage, which is 187.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎