The NC6253 Square Kilometre

NC6253 National Grid Square

Based in the Highlands and Islands region of Scotland.

NC6253 is within the post town of Lairg, Sutherland.

The square is within Highland council.

The Point of Origin (0,0) is 988.36 Kilometres away. This is where the National Grid starts around 80 kilometres west of the Isles of Scilly.

Ordnance Survey Maps for NC6253

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Map Series	link	Ordnance Survey
Explorer 1:25,000 448 Strath Naver / Strath Nabhair and Loch Loyal
Explorer 1:25,000 447 Ben Hope, Ben Loyal and Kyle of Tongue		Buy Direct from the Ordnance Survey
Landranger 1:50,000 10 Strathnaver	Shop for this map on amazon.co.uk

This extract is taken from the Ordnance Survey six-inch to the mile series surveyed from 1888-1913. The scale is 1:10,560.

The Square overlayed over the map represents the extent of NC6253 and the vertical and horizontal line divides the square into four quadrants

Dividing the NC6253 Square to get a six figure Grid Reference

A helpful reminder for calculating grid references is across the landing and up the stairs.

For example if your house was located in a square that in the fourth square across and sixth square up and you wanted to work out its six figure grid refence.

First, You would divide the four figure grid reference into three parts. NC , 62 and 53

Count across starting with zero. This would give you three. Make a note that X for Across (A Cross) = 3.

Count up starting with zero. This would give you five. Make a note that Y = 5.

So to put it together NC + 62 + 3 + 53 + 5 would give you the six figure grid reference of NC623535

NC	62		53
NC	62	3	53	5

A six figure grid reference would be accurate to 10 metres. To achieve a greater level of accuracy this 10 metre square would be divided into a grid 10 by 10 and the process repeated.

This would produce an 8 figure grid reference that would be accurate to a square metre!

Corner	Latitude	Longitude	Easting	Northing
South West Corner	58.443410	-4.366504	262000	953000
South East Corner	58.443410	-4.348786	263000	953000
North West Corner	58.452698	-4.366504	262000	954000
North East Corner	58.452698	-4.348786	263000	954000