Briercliffe

Briercliffe is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Briercliffe is 4,032, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Briercliffe there are 2,004 males, and 2,028 females.

Location

Briercliffe is located at a Latitude of 53.807957 (53°48'28.65"N), and Longitude of -2.165841 (-2°9'57.03"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Briercliffe is an average of 268 metres34.

The elevation of Briercliffe ranges from a low point of about 127 metres, to a high point of about 457 metres.

Nearby to Briercliffe

Human settlements nearby to Briercliffe are Worsthorne-with-Hurstwood, Nelson, Brierfield, and Trawden Forest.

Woodland coverage of Briercliffe

Briercliffe has approximately 3% woodland coverage which is approximately 146.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Briercliffe

How much of Briercliffe is water? Well, Briercliffe has 0.58% water coverage, which is 28.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎