Marking the meridian: Down the line (a point and click guide)
North Pole Arctic Ocean, Norwegian Sea, North Sea E Yorks:Tunstall (the most northerly landfall on the meridian, although the monument here recently slipped down the cliff), Sand-le-Mere caravan park , Holderness peninsiula, Patrington (there's an inscribed stone here beneath a metal sign), Sunk Island Sands, the mouth of the River Humber. NE Lincs: Cleethorpes (marked by a signpost on the MarineEmbankment between the boating lake and the sand dunes at Humberston). Lincs:Fulstow, Brackenborough Hall, Louth (right through the middle of this market town, with twoplaques in Eastgate), Woody's Top Youth Hostel, Snipe Dales nature reserve (with Meridian stone), East Kirkby aerodrome (and aviation museum, with monument), the eastern outskirts of Boston, the mouth of the River Welland, Holbeach (marked by a millstone beside the road to Spalding). Cambs: the Fens, Flood's Ferry Road, Somersham (with a pavement marker in the High Street), Swavesey (marked in the middle of the village), Great Eversden, Meldreth. Herts: the Royston bypass, Hamels Park golf course, Noah's Ark Farm (Ware), Hoddesdon. Essex:Lee Valley Park, Waltham Abbey, the M25 (the only UK motorway on the meridian), GilwellPark campsite (home of outdoor Scouting). London (north of Greenwich): Pole Hill, Waltham Forest, Stratford, the Dome, Greenwich (but I've written about those already). Greenwich Observatory London (south of Greenwich):Greenwich Park (bisecting the putting green, dividing the rose garden, then straight through the dining room, crimson parlour and gallery of the Ranger's House), Blackheath, Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School (Lewisham), the northern end of Hither Green railway station (site of the meridian's only train crash on 12th March 2001), Catford (through St Andrew'sChurch), Shortlands, West Wickham (with Meridian stone on the common), New Addington. Surrey: the M25 (again), Oxted (commuter village), Lingfield Park racecourse (almost). W Sussex East Grinstead (there are variousstonemarkers at East Court, and the town's coat of arms features a vertical white line representing the meridian) E Sussex:SheffieldPark (on the Bluebell railway, plaque on station wall), Chailey (meridianstone erected 1953), Lewes (another directhit on a town centre), Peacehaven (theMeridianMonument looks out over the English Channel). France: (except the French don't believe in our meridian, so I can't be bothered to tell you where it goes). Spain: from the Pyrenees south to (just outside) Benidorm, then into the Mediterranean. Africa:Algeria, the Sahara, Mali (straight through Gao on the the river Niger), Burkina Faso (through the northern town of Dori), Togo (just a tiny sliver in the northwest corner), Ghana (through Lake Volta, reaching the coast at Tema). The Atlantic Ocean:the Equator, more than 5000 miles of ocean. Antarctica: Queen Maud Land South Pole
