Sparkford

Sparkford is a human settlement in Somerset, England.

Population

The population of Sparkford is 729, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Sparkford there are 362 males, and 367 females.

Location

Sparkford is located at a Latitude of 51.033197 (51°1'59.51"N), and Longitude of -2.557109 (-2°33'25.59"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Sparkford is an average of 40 metres34.

The elevation of Sparkford ranges from a low point of about 16 metres, to a high point of about 82 metres.

Nearby to Sparkford

Human settlements nearby to Sparkford are South Cadbury and Sutton Montis, Queen Camel, South Barrow, and North Cadbury.

Woodland coverage of Sparkford

Sparkford has approximately 5% woodland coverage which is approximately 83.5 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Sparkford

How much of Sparkford is water? Well, Sparkford has 0.00% water coverage, which is 0.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎