Pen Selwood

Pen Selwood is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Pen Selwood is 314, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Pen Selwood there are 148 males, and 166 females.

Location

Pen Selwood is located at a Latitude of 51.079454 (51°4'46.03"N), and Longitude of -2.35113 (-2°21'4.07"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Pen Selwood is an average of 161 metres34.

The elevation of Pen Selwood ranges from a low point of about 80 metres, to a high point of about 276 metres.

Nearby to Pen Selwood

Human settlements nearby to Pen Selwood are Bourton, Silton, Charlton Musgrove, and Stourton with Gasper.

Woodland coverage of Pen Selwood

Pen Selwood has approximately 18% woodland coverage which is approximately 239.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Pen Selwood

How much of Pen Selwood is water? Well, Pen Selwood has 0.37% water coverage, which is 4.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎