Whitwell on the Hill

Whitwell-on-the-Hill is a human settlement in North Yorkshire, England.

Population

The population of Whitwell-on-the-Hill is 317, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Whitwell-on-the-Hill there are 162 males, and 155 females.

Location

Whitwell-on-the-Hill is located at a Latitude of 54.081622 (54°4'53.84"N), and Longitude of -0.902893 (0°54'10.41"E)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Whitwell-on-the-Hill is an average of 43 metres34.

The elevation of Whitwell-on-the-Hill ranges from a low point of about 2 metres, to a high point of about 114 metres.

Nearby to Whitwell-on-the-Hill

Human settlements nearby to Whitwell-on-the-Hill are Crambe, Welburn (Sheriff Hutton & Derwent Ward), Foston, and Bulmer.

Woodland coverage of Whitwell-on-the-Hill

Whitwell-on-the-Hill has approximately 6% woodland coverage which is approximately 117.8 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Whitwell-on-the-Hill

How much of Whitwell-on-the-Hill is water? Well, Whitwell-on-the-Hill has 0.07% water coverage, which is 1.3 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. ↩︎ ↩︎