West Orchard

West Orchard is a human settlement in Dorset, England.

Population

The population of West Orchard is 259, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In West Orchard there are 130 males, and 129 females.

Location

West Orchard is located at a Latitude of 50.948455 (50°56'54.44"N), and Longitude of -2.248307 (-2°14'53.90"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of West Orchard is an average of 44 metres34.

The elevation of West Orchard ranges from a low point of about 18 metres, to a high point of about 98 metres.

Nearby to West Orchard

Human settlements nearby to West Orchard are East Orchard, Manston, Margaret Marsh, and Hammoon.

Woodland coverage of West Orchard

West Orchard has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 6.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of West Orchard

How much of West Orchard is water? Well, West Orchard has 0.80% water coverage, which is 5.5 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. ↩︎ ↩︎