Giggleswick

Giggleswick is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Giggleswick is 1,252, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Giggleswick there are 605 males, and 647 females.

Location

Giggleswick is located at a Latitude of 54.070814 (54°4'14.93"N), and Longitude of -2.316499 (-2°18'59.40"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Giggleswick is an average of 201 metres34.

The elevation of Giggleswick ranges from a low point of about 114 metres, to a high point of about 342 metres.

Nearby to Giggleswick

Human settlements nearby to Giggleswick are Rathmell, Lawkland, Settle, and Langcliffe.

Woodland coverage of Giggleswick

Giggleswick has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 173.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Giggleswick

How much of Giggleswick is water? Well, Giggleswick has 0.37% water coverage, which is 18.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎