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The Greenwich Meridian on OS Explorer Maps

The line then passes to the west of Withernsea, close to the cemetery and Little England Hill, and on down virtually straight through Patrington Windmill.  OS Explorer Map 292

It crosses Sunk Island Sands and on into the river Humber estuary.

Through Cleethorpes sands, a popular seaside resort since Victorian times, and then down to Louth. OS Explorer Map 282 and OS Explorer Map 283

Just north of Louth the line passes through Brackenborough Hall and the deserted medieval village of Brackenborough.  OS Explorer Map 282

The meridian's route can be seen at Eastgate in Louth, a market town set on the eastern edge of the Lincolnshire Wolds. Much speculation has been aroused in Louth as to where the line actually goes and several articles and letters have appeared in the local newspaper The Leader.  OS Explorer Map 282

The youth hostel at Woody's Top almost gets a direct hit before the line enters the hamlet of Little London north of Tetford. Just to the east is Somersby, another tiny Lincolnshire Wolds village perhaps best known as the birthplace of Alfred Lord Tennyson, who went to school 'on the meridian' at Louth. OS Explorer Map 273

Bolingbroke Castle, in old Bolingbroke a mile east of the line, was the birthplace of Henry IV. OS Explorer Map 273

The line passes through the eastern outskirts of Boston, where the river Witham gave access to Flanders and parts of northern Europe and made it, 800 years ago, one of the most important commercial centres in the country. It was from here in the early seventeenth century that the Pilgrim Fathers set forth to seek religious freedom. They eventually settled in America where their new homes became Boston, Massachusetts.  OS Explorer Map 261

After crossing the river Welland it passes through Majors Farm before hitting Holbeach and Clough and going just west of Holbeach itself.  OS Explorer Map 249

The school in Somersham is right on the line, but it just goes west of Bluntisham. OS Explorer Map 225

The line runs parallel to the road through the village of Swavesey before it runs west of Cambridge bisecting Great Eversden and Little Eversden. OS Explorer Map 225 and OS Explorer Map 209

Crossing the A10 at Melbourn, the line runs east of Royston. Royston grew up at the intersection of two ancient roads: Ermine Street and the Icknield Way. The Meridian crosses Ermine Street (now the A10) twice. OS Explorer Map 209

The golfers at Hamels Park, just north west of Puckeridge, tee off in one hemisphere and sink their putts in another. If it rains they can shelter in Noah's Ark Farm, just outside Ware, which is right on the line, or in the village of Cold Christmas just to the west of the line. OS Explorer Map 194

Just to the south of Ware the line enters the Lee Valley and follows the river till it enters the Thames. On its way passing through the ruins of Waltham Abbey and the scout camp at Gilwell Park. Leaving Epping Forest through the Chingford Pillar at Pole Hill, in to the residential areas of Walthamstow, Leyton, Stratford and Newham. OS Explorer Map 174

Although the line passes through numerous schools, it only touches two hospitals, Chingford Hospital being the first from the north and the famous plastic surgery Victoria Hospital at East Grinstead the first from the south. OS Explorer Map 174 and OS Explorer Map 135

The line crosses the Thames at Blackwall and just hits the North Greenwich site of the new Millennium Dome before entering the Thames again to come out at Greenwich through the Royal Observatory. In the courtyard of the Royal Observatory a brass strip divides east from west, and is a favourite spot for taking photographs as visitors straddle both hemispheres. Hither Green railway station, two miles south of the observatory, has platforms in both hemispheres.  OS Explorer Map 162

The M25 is crossed at Oxted with the line running right through one of the village schools and the village centre itself. Lingfield Park racecourse is just to the west of the line before it reaches East Grinstead. OS Explorer Map 146

East Grinstead marks the Meridian in a very special way by including its representation in the form of a white line in the town's coat of arms. The Town Clerks offices are also bisected by the line. OS Explorer Map 135

South of East Grinstead the line gets wet in the Weir Wood reservoir before hitting Sheffield Park Station, the home of the Bluebell Steam Railway. OS Explorer Map 135

The most southerly residential areas along the line are Lewes, Iford and Peacehaven (once the home of Gracie Fields). OS Explorer Map 122

The line runs through the cemetery next to the Lewes County Hall before passing close to the church at Iford and entering Peacehaven. There is an obelisk at the point where the line crosses Peacehaven promenade and plunges over the cliff into the sea. OS Explorer Map 122

Next stop France, Spain, Northern Algeria, Sahara Desert, Ghana and Lake Volta, leaving Africa at Accra before its long Atlantic Ocean journey towards Antarctica and the South Pole.

For more details see www.GreenwichMeridian.com or Ordnance Survey website