Thornton Le Dale

Thornton-le-Dale is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Thornton-le-Dale is 1,856, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thornton-le-Dale there are 880 males, and 976 females.

Location

Thornton-le-Dale is located at a Latitude of 54.244835 (54°14'41.41"N), and Longitude of -0.700454 (0°42'1.63"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thornton-le-Dale is an average of 67 metres34.

The elevation of Thornton-le-Dale ranges from a low point of about 1 metres, to a high point of about 303 metres.

Nearby to Thornton-le-Dale

Human settlements nearby to Thornton-le-Dale are Wilton, Pickering, Ebberston and Yedingham, and Allerston.

Woodland coverage of Thornton-le-Dale

Thornton-le-Dale has approximately 37% woodland coverage which is approximately 4,190.1 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thornton-le-Dale

How much of Thornton-le-Dale is water? Well, Thornton-le-Dale has 0.11% water coverage, which is 13.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎