Read

Read is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Read is 1,462, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Read there are 734 males, and 728 females.

Location

Read is located at a Latitude of 53.808863 (53°48'31.91"N), and Longitude of -2.363971 (-2°21'50.30"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Read is an average of 106 metres34.

The elevation of Read ranges from a low point of about 47 metres, to a high point of about 261 metres.

Nearby to Read

Human settlements nearby to Read are Simonstone, Whalley, Wiswell, and Altham.

Woodland coverage of Read

Read has approximately 19% woodland coverage which is approximately 267.6 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Read

How much of Read is water? Well, Read has 0.93% water coverage, which is 13.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎