Chewton Mendip

Chewton Mendip is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Chewton Mendip is 570, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Chewton Mendip there are 286 males, and 284 females.

Location

Chewton Mendip is located at a Latitude of 51.268189 (51°16'5.48"N), and Longitude of -2.602396 (-2°36'8.63"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Chewton Mendip is an average of 222 metres34.

The elevation of Chewton Mendip ranges from a low point of about 76 metres, to a high point of about 302 metres.

Nearby to Chewton Mendip

Human settlements nearby to Chewton Mendip are Litton, Emborough, East Harptree, and Hinton Blewett.

Woodland coverage of Chewton Mendip

Chewton Mendip has approximately 17% woodland coverage which is approximately 998.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Chewton Mendip

How much of Chewton Mendip is water? Well, Chewton Mendip has 0.05% water coverage, which is 3.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎