Melchet Park and Plaitford

Melchet Park and Plaitford is a human settlement in Hampshire, England.

Population

The population of Melchet Park and Plaitford is 327, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Melchet Park and Plaitford there are 163 males, and 164 females.

Location

Melchet Park and Plaitford is located at a Latitude of 50.982927 (50°58'58.54"N), and Longitude of -1.608117 (-1°36'29.22"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Melchet Park and Plaitford is an average of 43 metres34.

The elevation of Melchet Park and Plaitford ranges from a low point of about 13 metres, to a high point of about 101 metres.

Nearby to Melchet Park and Plaitford

Human settlements nearby to Melchet Park and Plaitford are Wellow, Landford, Sherfield English, and Whiteparish.

Woodland coverage of Melchet Park and Plaitford

Melchet Park and Plaitford has approximately 20% woodland coverage which is approximately 384.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Melchet Park and Plaitford

How much of Melchet Park and Plaitford is water? Well, Melchet Park and Plaitford has 0.72% water coverage, which is 13.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎