The NS7865 Square Kilometre

NS7865 National Grid Square

Based in the Central Scotland region of Scotland.

The NS7865 square kilometre intersects with the settlements of Airdrie & Moffat Mills.

NS7865 is within the post town of Airdrie, Lanarkshire.

The square is within North Lanarkshire council.

The Point of Origin (0,0) is 720.77 Kilometres away. This is where the National Grid starts around 80 kilometres west of the Isles of Scilly.

Ordnance Survey Maps for NS7865

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Map Series	link	Ordnance Survey
Explorer 1:25,000 349 Falkirk, Cumbernauld and Livingstone	Shop for this map on amazon.co.uk
Explorer 1:25,000 343 Motherwell and Coatbridge		Buy Direct from the Ordnance Survey
Landranger 1:50,000 64 Glasgow Motherwell & Airdrie	Shop for this map on amazon.co.uk	Buy Direct from the Ordnance Survey

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 NS7865 and the vertical and horizontal line divides the square into four quadrants

Dividing the NS7865 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. NS , 78 and 65

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 NS + 78 + 3 + 65 + 5 would give you the six figure grid reference of NS783655

NS	78		65
NS	78	3	65	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	55.862688	-3.951326	278000	665000
South East Corner	55.862688	-3.934908	279000	665000
North West Corner	55.871920	-3.951326	278000	666000
North East Corner	55.871920	-3.934908	279000	666000