Westmeston

Westmeston is a human settlement in East Sussex, England.

Population

The population of Westmeston is 290, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Westmeston there are 142 males, and 148 females.

Location

Westmeston is located at a Latitude of 50.919267 (50°55'9.36"N), and Longitude of -0.092756 (0°5'33.92"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Westmeston is an average of 72 metres34.

The elevation of Westmeston ranges from a low point of about 26 metres, to a high point of about 245 metres.

Nearby to Westmeston

Human settlements nearby to Westmeston are Streat, Ditchling, Plumpton, and East Chiltington.

Woodland coverage of Westmeston

Westmeston has approximately 18% woodland coverage which is approximately 382.4 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Westmeston

How much of Westmeston is water? Well, Westmeston has 0.17% water coverage, which is 3.7 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. ↩︎ ↩︎