Comments on: Map References

By: adrian palensky

adrian palensky — Fri, 01 May 2026 15:28:37 +0000

Quite late to the discussion, and most likely you have found your answer by now, but in any case for future reference, here’s a great site:

https://www.echodelta.net/mbs/eng-welcome.php

There they have a very user friendly “Coordinates Translator” where you choose your appropriate grid from the drop down menu (note: the British Cassini Grid is default), then enter your modified British System coordinates to be decoded and will spit out the exact latitude/longitude which you can then plug in to the on line mapping application of your choice. To your specific question, the British Cassini Grid coordinates of xL 892 254 translates to the following lat/lon, just on the southern outskirts of the town of Harlow, north of London.

51° 44′ 16” N, 0° 05′ 39” E

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 31 Aug 2022 15:56:37 +0000

Great website, very interesing, thank you.
Could you please give an example or a few further clues as to how to convert the Cassini Coordinates to Lat & Long please?
Looking at the second V2 from the 8th of Sept 1944 it gives the Ref as L 892 254 and using the website suggested the best I can do is to place it somewhere in the North Sea about 42 miles west of the Danish coast! Whearas it should be Nr Epping.
I have tried many permutation without sucess, any help much appreciated, thanks.
Regards
Mike

By: Admin

Admin — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:56:57 +0000

In reply to Neil Foster. Please take note of the information at the top of this page.

By: Neil Foster

Neil Foster — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 13:51:38 +0000

Incident Number 23 – V2 Position and Crater

Hi thank you for a superb website which feeds my lifelong fascination with anything to do with WW2. I will like to ask about incident 23 in Hockley Essex, where I have lived the bulk of my life. I believe the site for this is actually in the square woods to the east of its current marked position in Marylands Woods, bordering Mount Crescent, just the other side of the railway crossing. There is a huge crater, filled with water within the south east corner of these woods

By: Admin

Admin — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:39:44 +0000

In reply to Graham Berry. No V2 incident is recorded this far North we suggest it was a V1 so we have no information.

By: Graham Berry

Graham Berry — Mon, 11 Jan 2021 09:22:55 +0000

Hi
This ref Number (Sheet 31/690365) refers to a Flying Bomb Impact on 24/12/1944 in Grange Moor Wakefield, now new houses I am trying to locate its exact location.
Thank You.