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On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:11:00 +0100, Annabel Smyth
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Not on the LT system, but I've certainly seen a plaque when driving
along the south coast at Peacehaven, near Newhaven.

Is that one which has distances to the major cities of the Empire?
[google] http://peacehaven.net/meridian.html

There are probably dozens of markers up and down the country. I saw a
milepost-style meridian plaque in East Grinstead the other day, and at
the other end there is one near Ottringham in East Yorkshire. There is
a marker in Cleethropes, and I believe Louth. Someone, somewhere has
probably got a website listing them all. Some OS maps have a big line
to mark the meridian - I knew someone who won a competition and got as
a prize the complete set of Peacehaven - Tunstall maps.
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In message , Arthur Figgis
] writes
There are probably dozens of markers up and down the country. I saw a
milepost-style meridian plaque in East Grinstead the other day, and at
the other end there is one near Ottringham in East Yorkshire. There is
a marker in Cleethropes, and I believe Louth.

There's a Millennium Meridian marker on the A10 Melbourn bypass:

http://greenwichbook.com/line/os-maps.htm is helpful.
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Roland Perry

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On Fri, 7 May 2004 at 21:36:17, Arthur Figgis ]
wrote:

On Fri, 7 May 2004 13:11:00 +0100, Annabel Smyth
wrote:

Not on the LT system, but I've certainly seen a plaque when driving
along the south coast at Peacehaven, near Newhaven.

Is that one which has distances to the major cities of the Empire?
[google] http://peacehaven.net/meridian.html

Yes, that's the one.

There are probably dozens of markers up and down the country. I saw a
milepost-style meridian plaque in East Grinstead the other day, and at
the other end there is one near Ottringham in East Yorkshire. There is
a marker in Cleethropes, and I believe Louth. Someone, somewhere has
probably got a website listing them all. Some OS maps have a big line
to mark the meridian - I knew someone who won a competition and got as
a prize the complete set of Peacehaven - Tunstall maps.

Thanks - that answers a question for me, I had been wondering which
hemisphere my daughter, who lives in York, was in!
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Annabel Smyth
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Website updated 8 March 2004

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"Arthur Figgis" wrote...

There are probably dozens of markers up and down the country.

In London, but nowhere near the Underground, there's a meridian stone in
Coney Hall recreation ground. (Nearest NR station: Hayes)

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In article ,
(Ian Jelf) wrote:

In message , Annabel Smyth
writes
One of the things I like best in my new job is that I get to go "to the
other side of the world" every day!

During a brief period of working in Cambridge some years ago I had the
same privilege, going from the Eastern to Western hemispheres every
morning!

You can't have worked in Cambridge then! The meridian passes some miles
West of Cambridge.

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Colin Rosenstiel

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In message ,
Colin Rosenstiel writes
During a brief period of working in Cambridge some years ago I had the
same privilege, going from the Eastern to Western hemispheres every
morning!

You can't have worked in Cambridge then! The meridian passes some miles
West of Cambridge.

If he lived west of the meridian and worked nights, then his journey
home from Cambridge would cross it in the morning.
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Roland Perry

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JRS: In article
o.uk, seen in news:uk.transport.london, Colin Rosenstiel
posted at Sun, 9 May 2004 09:25:00 :
In article ,
(Ian Jelf) wrote:

In message , Annabel Smyth
writes
One of the things I like best in my new job is that I get to go "to the
other side of the world" every day!

During a brief period of working in Cambridge some years ago I had the
same privilege, going from the Eastern to Western hemispheres every
morning!

You can't have worked in Cambridge then! The meridian passes some miles
West of Cambridge.

Cannot one commute in from Orwell or Toft - or Birmingham or London?

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In message , Dr John Stockton
writes
During a brief period of working in Cambridge some years ago I had the
same privilege, going from the Eastern to Western hemispheres every
morning!

You can't have worked in Cambridge then! The meridian passes some miles
West of Cambridge.

Cannot one commute in from Orwell or Toft - or Birmingham or London?

Yes, but with a daytime job that would be from Western to Eastern
Hemisphere every morning ...

(Don't ever underestimate how pedant some Cambridge people are!!)
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Roland Perry

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In article , (Roland
Perry) wrote:

(Don't ever underestimate how pedant some Cambridge people are!!)

ITYM (Don't ever underestimate how pedantic some Cambridge people are!!).

HTH, HAND,

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Colin Rosenstiel