Example of the two grid reference methods

Battle in East Sussex is centred at 574500 m in the x axis (eastings) and 116200 m in the y axis (northings) of the British National Grid.

Eastings/Northings method

Eastings: 574500

Northings: 116200

Battle grid reference: (574500, 116200)

Letter prefix method

The location of Battle can also be described by the reference TQ745162, where TQ identifies the 100 km square (500000, 100000), 745 identifies the easting within this square to the nearest 100 m and 162 identifies the northing.

Battle grid reference: TQ745162

 

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