Retriangulation of Great Britain was a triangulation project carried out between 1935 and 1962 that sought to improve the accuracy of maps of Great Britain...
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the test of time for a century, until the Retriangulation of Great Britain between 1935 and 1962. In the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 it was...
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SHORAN (category Military electronics of the United States)
Retrieved 5 August 2023. Edge, R.C.A. (1967). The History of the Retriangulation of Great Britain, 1935-1962. London: H.M. Stationery Office. Retrieved 5...
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Ordnance Survey (redirect from Ordnance Survey of Great Britain)
Major-General Malcolm MacLeod, started the retriangulation of Great Britain, an immense task involving the erection of concrete triangulation pillars ("trig...
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Triangulation station (category Use British English from December 2023)
process of placing trig points on top of prominent hills and mountains began in 1935 to assist in the accurate retriangulation of Great Britain. The Ordnance...
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landscape, such as the concrete triangulation pillars set up for retriangulation of Great Britain (1936–1962), or the triangulation points set up for the Struve...
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Cooke, Troughton & Simms (category Manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom)
Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the East African Arc and the retriangulation of Great Britain. In response to user requests a second, lighter version the...
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Dent (fell) (category Marilyns of England)
outskirts of Whitehaven), High Pike and Cross Fell. The absence of a trig point suggests that Dent was not used in the Retriangulation of Great Britain. Over...
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Martin Hotine (category Commanders of the Order of the British Empire)
the head of the Trigonometrical and Levelling Division of the Ordnance Survey responsible for the 26-year-long retriangulation of Great Britain (1936–1962)...
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Foot (unit) (redirect from Feet (unit of length))
The United Kingdom was unaffected by this problem, as the retriangulation of Great Britain (1936–62) had been done in meters. In the United States, the...
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Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain, which initiated the Retriangulation of Great Britain in 1936, using metric measures. A metric...
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in order to determine the exact shape of the country in a project known as the retriangulation of Great Britain, which was carried out from 1936 to 1962...
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Ordnance Survey National Grid (redirect from British National Grid)
datum (Ordnance Survey Great Britain 1936, based on the Airy 1830 ellipsoid), and was introduced after the retriangulation of 1936–1962.[citation needed]...
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1969) was Director General of the Ordnance Survey from 1935 to 1943. In 1935, he started the retriangulation of Great Britain, an immense task which involved...
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Whittington Tump (category Hills of Worcestershire)
record of the political and social organisation of Worcestershire during the medieval period. As part of the retriangulation of Great Britain a triangulation...
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filled in gaps between the Primary Stations, erected during the Retriangulation of Great Britain. It is no longer in use. The associated Flush Bracket has identification...
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1936 in the United Kingdom (redirect from Year of the Three Kings (1936))
opened by Amy Johnson. 18 April – Ordnance Survey begins the retriangulation of Great Britain with its first triangulation station near Cold Ashby, Northamptonshire...
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poles. The Retriangulation of Great Britain that began in 1935 again took Dunnose as a base point. Dunnose also was the origin (meridian) of the 6 inch...
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Southend High School for Boys (category Use British English from February 2023)
pillars and for the Retriangulation of Great Britain in the 1930s Air Marshal Sir William Richardson, Chief Engineer from 1986 to 1988 of the RAF, Station...
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