Based in the West Midlands English Region.
The SO98 10 square kilometre grid intersects with the settlements of Birmingham,Blackheath,Brierley Hill,Cradley Heath,Dudley,Frankley,Frankley Green,Hagley,Halesowen,Hunnington,Illey,Kingswinford,Lower Clent,Old Hill,Oldbury,Romsley,Rowley Regis,Stourbridge & West Bromwich.
SO98 is within the post towns of Birmingham, Warwickshire, Brierley Hill, Staffordshire, Cradley Heath, Staffordshire, Dudley, Worcestershire, Halesowen, Worcestershire, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, Oldbury, Worcestershire, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, Stourbridge, Worcestershire & West Bromwich, Staffordshire.
The square is within Birmingham District, Bromsgrove District, Dudley District & Sandwell District councils.
The SO98 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 SO98, 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 | 52.417915 | -2.148758 | 390000 | 280000 |
South East Corner | 52.417915 | -2.001419 | 400000 | 280000 |
North West Corner | 52.507909 | -2.148758 | 390000 | 290000 |
North East Corner | 52.507909 | -2.001419 | 400000 | 290000 |