Richards Castle (Shropshire)

Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) is a human settlement in West Midlands, England.

Population

The population of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) is 408, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) there are 212 males, and 196 females.

Location

Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) is located at a Latitude of 52.33126 (52°19'52.54"N), and Longitude of -2.725779 (-2°43'32.80"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) is an average of 100 metres34.

The elevation of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) ranges from a low point of about 41 metres, to a high point of about 293 metres.

Nearby to Richard’s Castle (Shropshire)

Human settlements nearby to Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) are Ashford Bowdler, Richards Castle (Hereford), Ashford Carbonel, and Orleton.

Woodland coverage of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire)

Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 192.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire)

How much of Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) is water? Well, Richard’s Castle (Shropshire) has 0.93% water coverage, which is 24.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎