The SY5590 Square Kilometre

SY5590 National Grid Square

Based in the South West English Region.

The SY5590 square kilometre intersects with the settlement of Litton Cheney.

SY5590 is within the post town of Dorchester, Dorset.

The square is within Dorset council.

The Point of Origin (0,0) is 366.23 Kilometres away. This is where the National Grid starts around 80 kilometres west of the Isles of Scilly.

Ordnance Survey Maps for SY5590

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Map Series	link	Ordnance Survey
Explorer 1:25,000 117 Cerne Abbas and Bere Regis, Blandford Forum and Beaminster	Shop for this map on amazon.co.uk	Buy Direct from the Ordnance Survey
Landranger 1:50,000 194 Dorchester & Weymouth	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 SY5590 and the vertical and horizontal line divides the square into four quadrants

Dividing the SY5590 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. SY , 55 and 90

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 SY + 55 + 3 + 90 + 5 would give you the six figure grid reference of SY553905

SY	55		90
SY	55	3	90	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	50.707874	-2.638780	355000	90000
South East Corner	50.707874	-2.624496	356000	90000
North West Corner	50.716943	-2.638780	355000	91000
North East Corner	50.716943	-2.624496	356000	91000