Foulridge

Foulridge is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Foulridge is 1,555, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Foulridge there are 784 males, and 771 females.

Location

Foulridge is located at a Latitude of 53.878677 (53°52'43.24"N), and Longitude of -2.166417 (-2°9'59.10"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Foulridge is an average of 192 metres34.

The elevation of Foulridge ranges from a low point of about 131 metres, to a high point of about 329 metres.

Nearby to Foulridge

Human settlements nearby to Foulridge are Colne, Salterforth, Kelbrook and Sough, and Blacko.

Woodland coverage of Foulridge

Foulridge has approximately 1% woodland coverage which is approximately 19.2 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Foulridge

How much of Foulridge is water? Well, Foulridge has 6.51% water coverage, which is 121.2 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. ↩︎ ↩︎