Based in the South West English Region.
The SO81 10 square kilometre grid intersects with the settlements of Brockworth,Brookthorpe,Churchdown,Colethrop,Cooper's Hill,Cranham,Cranham Corner,Edge,Gloucester,Hardwicke,Haresfield,Highnam,Over,Painswick,Quedgeley,Sheepscombe,Upton St Leonards & Whaddon.
SO81 is within the post towns of Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire & Stroud, Gloucestershire.
The square is within Gloucester District, Stroud District & Tewkesbury District councils.
The SO81 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 SO81, 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 | 51.788301 | -2.291938 | 380000 | 210000 |
South East Corner | 51.788301 | -2.146376 | 390000 | 210000 |
North West Corner | 51.878481 | -2.291938 | 380000 | 220000 |
North East Corner | 51.878481 | -2.146376 | 390000 | 220000 |