13 FIGURE GRID REFERENCE

We used to do 4 figure grid reference as well as 6 figure grid reference

hope you are well versed with how those two are done.

Now 13 figure grid reference is when we have 6 figures for eastings and 7 figures for northings.

Let us start with the eastings.

If you look closely at the eastings on your topographical map you will notice that there is a small
figure near what we used to take as the normal easting eg a small 3 besides say easting 14. Now
include that small 3 then write down the normal easting and you will have your first 3 figures for the
eastings. Now the last 3 figures are computed in the similar way we computed the former 6 figure grid
reference.

we are aware that our grid box has an equivalent length of 1000m, and we can divide it into 10
segments 100m and each 100m segment can be divided into 10 segments 10m each and each 10 m
segment into segments 1m. So as you are moving from the main easting into the grid box to a feature
you will have written your small easting as well as the main easting and the fourth figure is obtained
by seeing how many hundreds of meters the feature lies from the main easting, the fifth is how many
tenths of units and the 6th how many units.

Here the usual result can be 314700. The last two zeroes are there because it's not possible to
measure the distance of a normal 1:50000 topo map.

For the northings, you will notice that they start with a double digit alongside that we used to identify
as the normal northing. Copy the four numbers and add three zeroes at the end and you will have 13
figure grid reference.

If possible, find a map and try that.