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Greenwich Meridian marker at Orwell

Greenwich Meridian marker at Orwell

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Greenwich Meridian marker at Orwell

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Location: Orwell, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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Neil Sneade

June 1, 2021

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Quiet and open road. There’s a Greenwich Meridian marker at the roadside near the Orwell end.

JakobusPilger

June 29, 2025

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The "invention" of the prime meridian – more precisely, the scientifically based division of the globe into longitude and latitude, with the prime meridian running at this point as the central reference line – in the second half of the 19th century was an epochal masterpiece in the field of cartography and navigation, particularly significant for seafaring at the time. Even today, in the age of modern GPS navigation based on satellites orbiting the Earth, coordinates based on this principle continue to be used to determine location.

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Distance 3.67 km

Uphill 20 m

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Location: Orwell, South Cambridgeshire, Cambridgeshire, East Of England, England, United Kingdom

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