Salesbury

Salesbury is a human settlement in Lancashire, England.

Population

The population of Salesbury is 399, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Salesbury there are 202 males, and 197 females.

Location

Salesbury is located at a Latitude of 53.808954 (53°48'32.23"N), and Longitude of -2.493269 (-2°29'35.77"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Salesbury is an average of 65 metres34.

The elevation of Salesbury ranges from a low point of about 11 metres, to a high point of about 139 metres.

Nearby to Salesbury

Human settlements nearby to Salesbury are Clayton-le-Dale, Dinckley, Wilpshire, and Ramsgreave.

Woodland coverage of Salesbury

Salesbury has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 93.3 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Salesbury

How much of Salesbury is water? Well, Salesbury has 1.70% water coverage, which is 23.9 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. ↩︎ ↩︎