Little Wenlock

Little Wenlock is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Little Wenlock is 577, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Little Wenlock there are 291 males, and 286 females.

Location

Little Wenlock is located at a Latitude of 52.66677 (52°40'0.37"N), and Longitude of -2.52084 (-2°31'15.03"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Little Wenlock is an average of 198 metres34.

The elevation of Little Wenlock ranges from a low point of about 51 metres, to a high point of about 411 metres.

Nearby to Little Wenlock

Human settlements nearby to Little Wenlock are Dawley Hamlets, Lawley and Overdale, Buildwas, and Wellington.

Woodland coverage of Little Wenlock

Little Wenlock has approximately 35% woodland coverage which is approximately 1,582.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Little Wenlock

How much of Little Wenlock is water? Well, Little Wenlock has 0.22% water coverage, which is 10.1 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. ↩︎ ↩︎