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SY78
Based in the South West English Region.
The SY78 10 square kilometre grid intersects with the settlements of Broadmayne,Chaldon Herring,Crossways,Dorchester,Moreton,Osmington,Osmington Mills,Owermoigne,Ringstead,Warmwell,West Knighton,West Stafford & Weymouth.
SY78
SY78 is within the post towns of Dorchester, Dorset, Wareham, Dorset & Weymouth, Dorset.
The square is within Dorset council.
The SY78 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 SY78, 240 are land and -140 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 | 50.618918 | -2.426232 | 370000 | 80000 |
| South East Corner | 50.618918 | -2.284067 | 380000 | 80000 |
| North West Corner | 50.709277 | -2.426232 | 370000 | 90000 |
| North East Corner | 50.709277 | -2.284067 | 380000 | 90000 |