Higher Hurdsfield

Higher Hurdsfield is a human settlement in North West, England.

Population

The population of Higher Hurdsfield is 740, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Higher Hurdsfield there are 366 males, and 374 females.

Location

Higher Hurdsfield is located at a Latitude of 53.272136 (53°16'19.69"N), and Longitude of -2.100669 (-2°6'2.41"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Higher Hurdsfield is an average of 177 metres34.

The elevation of Higher Hurdsfield ranges from a low point of about 108 metres, to a high point of about 263 metres.

Nearby to Higher Hurdsfield

Human settlements nearby to Higher Hurdsfield are Bollington, Rainow, and Prestbury.

Woodland coverage of Higher Hurdsfield

Higher Hurdsfield has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 38.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Higher Hurdsfield

How much of Higher Hurdsfield is water? Well, Higher Hurdsfield has 1.14% water coverage, which is 7.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎