Thornton Le Street

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

Population

The population of Thornton-le-Street is 387, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Thornton-le-Street there are 189 males, and 198 females.

Location

Thornton-le-Street is located at a Latitude of 54.268314 (54°16'5.93"N), and Longitude of -1.378568 (-1°22'42.85"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Thornton-le-Street is an average of 43 metres34.

The elevation of Thornton-le-Street ranges from a low point of about 13 metres, to a high point of about 81 metres.

Nearby to Thornton-le-Street

Human settlements nearby to Thornton-le-Street are North Kilvington, Newsham with Breckenbrough, Thornbrough, and Thirsk.

Woodland coverage of Thornton-le-Street

Thornton-le-Street has approximately 7% woodland coverage which is approximately 119.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Thornton-le-Street

How much of Thornton-le-Street is water? Well, Thornton-le-Street has 0.30% water coverage, which is 5.0 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. ↩︎ ↩︎