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Hi, i have been given some OS Map references and i cant seem to find anything on them... I have an idea where there are in Kent but the references mean nothing to me, can anyone help?

OS Explorer map 125

TQ858 347 to TQ873 350


and

TQ826 304 to TQ 822 310

The first part of the reference (the letters TQ) are the national grid reference. The OS divide the country up into 10k * 10k squares and identify these squares by assigning 2 letters to them.

The digits are a coordinate within that square.

For a full explanation see the following reference sheet, courtesy of OS themselves:
http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsi ... algrid.pdf

Hi

TQ is the general area and guides you if you don't know where in the UK the references are.

The first set of 3 numbers are read across the bottom of the map (eastings - as they are read to the east): Grid line 85 and then 6/10 of the square to the right.
The second set of 3 are the northings - as they are read to the north - and read up the side of the map in the same way: Grid line 34 plus 7/10 of the square above.

Hope that makes sense.

I presume they are routes as you have 'to' in your references.
I don't have 125 to hand as mine are all Sussex.

The first one is a nice little Byway numbered AB62 in the Tenterden area on the Kent Definitive map. It is just as clear on the Landranger OS map number 189 Ashford & Romney Marsh.
The second one is in the Benenden area best shown on Landranger map 188 Maidstone & the Weald of Kent. The map referance that you have given is part of a bigger Byway, but the first part from your referance is AT64, then continues over the border into WC362, exiting at TQ 816314.