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Handy Facts, UK
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UK distances
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The following very short list of distances in the UK might
help in estimating the scales of UK maps. Remember that
these are crow flight distances, not road distances.
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towns etc
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place NGR (approx)
London TQ (51) 325 810
Bristol ST (31) 586 727
Truro SW (10) 827 448
Manchester SJ (33) 836 988
Newcastle NZ (45) 243 648
York SE (44) 604 522
Edinburgh NT (36) 265 741
Inverness NH (28) 675 455
(All positions are estimates, I am likely to have used the
main church as the town centre as the distances are most
used with old maps)
Duncansby Head ND (39) 400 735
Gwennap Head SW (10) 366 215
Lands End SW (10) 340 254
North Foreland TR (61) 402 700
(These heads are an easily measured tip-to-tip length of
the island)
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towns to town
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place-place distance, kilometres (miles)
London-Bristol 174.1 (108.2)
London-Manchester 263.8 (163.9)
London-Edinburgh 534.4 (332.1)
London-Truro 375.4 (233.3)
London-York 280.6 (174.4)
London-Newcastle 398.8 (247.8)
Bristol-Manchester 227.5 (141.4)
Manchester-Edinburgh 281.2 (174.7)
Edinburgh-Inverness 181.3 (112.7)
top-toe 973.5 (604.9)
left-right 526.4 (327.1)
(Note that 1 mile = 1.6093Km / 1Km = 0.6214 miles)
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distances on map
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place- Lon- Lon- Lon- Bris- Man- Edin- top- left-
-place -Bris -Man -Edin -Man -Edin -Inv -toe -right
(millimetres)
scale 1 to
1000000 174 264 534 228 281 181 974 526
1250000 139 211 428 182 225 145 779 421
1500000 116 176 356 152 187 121 649 351
2000000 87 132 267 114 141 91 487 263
2500000 70 106 214 91 112 73 324 211
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