NS23

Based in the West Scotland region of Scotland.

NS23

NS23 is within the post towns of Irvine, Ayrshire & Stevenston, Ayrshire.

The square is within North Ayrshire council.

The NS23 national grid square measures 10 km by 10 km and has an area of 1,000 kilometres squared.

The technical term for a 10 km map square is a Hectad.

When this 10 km square is divided into a grid 10 by 10 it gives the next size of grid square. This unit is called a Monad and measures 1km square. 100 monads fit in a 10km square.

Out of the monads generated from square NS23, 362 are land and -262 are sea. Sea squares are disregarded on this site as they contain no land features.

North West NS14	North NS24	North East NS34
		East NS33
	South NS22	South East NS32

Corner	Latitude	Longitude	Easting	Northing
South West Corner	55.530439	-4.860020	220000	630000
South East Corner	55.530439	-4.695261	230000	630000
North West Corner	55.623777	-4.860020	220000	640000
North East Corner	55.623777	-4.695261	230000	640000