Based in the West Midlands English Region.
The SO56 10 square kilometre grid intersects with the settlements of Brimfield,Burford,Kimbolton,Little Hereford,Oldwood,St Michaels,Stockton,Stony Cross,Tenbury Wells,Whyle,Woofferton & Wyson.
SO56 is within the post towns of Leominster, Herefordshire, Ludlow, Shropshire & Tenbury Wells, Worcestershire.
The square is within County of Herefordshire, Malvern Hills District & Shropshire councils.
The SO56 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 SO56, 523 are land and -423 are sea. Sea squares are disregarded on this site as they contain no land features.
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Corner | Latitude | Longitude | Easting | Northing |
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South West Corner | 52.235921 | -2.735069 | 350000 | 260000 |
South East Corner | 52.235921 | -2.587158 | 360000 | 260000 |
North West Corner | 52.326640 | -2.735069 | 350000 | 270000 |
North East Corner | 52.326640 | -2.587158 | 360000 | 270000 |