Difference between revisions of "Sheffield, United Kingdom"

Revision as of 22:22, 21 May 2008

Argyll	Perthshire	Perth
Kintyre	Sheffield	Edinburgh
Belfast	Birmingham East	Cumbrian Coast

The Sheffield graticule [1] is at latitude 53, longitude -1. It contains York, Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Chesterfield & Mansfield.

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 <map lat="53" lon="-1" date="2008-05-24" width="300" height="300"/>
-The Sheffield [[graticule]] [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=55&long=-5&zoom=8&abs=1] is at latitude 55, longitude -4.  It is mostly on land, except for the western portion (which is in the Firth of Clyde), and stretches from Helensburgh in the north down to the Galloway Forest Park in the south.
+The Sheffield [[graticule]] [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=53&long=-1&zoom=8&abs=1] is at latitude 53, longitude -1.  It contains York, Bradford, Leeds, Halifax, Wakefield, Huddersfield, Doncaster, Rotherham, Sheffield, Chesterfield & Mansfield.
-On May 21st, 2008 the co-ordinates pointed to a location just off a country road, around one mile east of Currarie and two miles west of (though closer to by road) Pinmore. The nearest sizable town was Girvan, about six miles drive north.
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