Whepstead

Whepstead is a human settlement in Suffolk, England.

Population

The population of Whepstead is 477, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whepstead there are 238 males, and 239 females.

Location

Whepstead is located at a Latitude of 52.188128 (52°11'17.26"N), and Longitude of 0.675374 (0°40'31.35"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whepstead is an average of 101 metres34.

The elevation of Whepstead ranges from a low point of about 58 metres, to a high point of about 142 metres.

Nearby to Whepstead

Human settlements nearby to Whepstead are Brockley, Hawstead, Rede, and Chedburgh.

Woodland coverage of Whepstead

Whepstead has approximately 8% woodland coverage which is approximately 222.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whepstead

How much of Whepstead is water? Well, Whepstead has 0.11% water coverage, which is 3.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎