Where is centre of uk

Skip to content. Leisure Business and Government Education Log in. Where is the centre of Great Britain? Ordnance Survey. Ordnance Survey in the news Using GI and maps. Great Britain mapping. Is Haltwhistle the centre of Britain? How do we measure it?

What do we define as Great Britain? Share with Twitter Share with Facebook. Retrieved 2 January Where is the centre of mainland Great Britain? Ordnance Survey. Retrieved 23 November Retrieved Accessed May Category : United Kingdom.

By the way, even though I live in Lancashire, there is no bias, I'm a Yorkshireman! It's also the centre of the universe. The distance is Brian of Britain, Oxford, UK It's always a source of amazement that many of us live on an island the mainland and so few people know it's name. Great Britain is made up of around 20, islands. The largest is, of course, called Britain. To find the centre balance point a template can be cut from sheet metal.

The larger the better and balanced on a pin. Costal areas and estuaries must be averaged. There is a small plaque at the shop. The plaque states that the calculation was made by Prof A. Riddle in Adam Cox , Otley Uk All respondents so far seem to be concerned with locating the centre point of a two-dimensional country. OS said the centre of Great Britain had been "hotly disputed" for decades, but for the first time it had calculated the results for the UK as a whole.

It said a field near High Ercall would become the centre if Scotland became independent. The field south of Shawbury is at grid reference With Scotland included the centre point calculated by OS is in the middle of Morecambe Bay, at map coordinates