Melksham

Melksham is a human settlement in South West, England.

Population

The population of Melksham is 14,137, in the 2021 census of the United Kingdom1.

In Melksham there are 6,914 males, and 7,223 females.

Location

Melksham is located at a Latitude of 51.375905 (51°22'33.26"N), and Longitude of -2.13407 (-2°8'2.65"W)2.

Elevation

The elevation of Melksham is an average of 26 metres34.

The elevation of Melksham ranges from a low point of about 4 metres, to a high point of about 63 metres.

Nearby to Melksham

Human settlements nearby to Melksham are Melksham Without, Lands common to the parishes of Broughton Gifford and Melksham Without, Broughton Gifford, and Semington.

Woodland coverage of Melksham

Melksham has approximately 0% woodland coverage which is approximately 5.9 hectare of woodland5.

Water coverage of Melksham

How much of Melksham is water? Well, Melksham has 0.96% water coverage, which is 12.8 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. ↩︎ ↩︎