To convert an Ordnance Survey grid reference (e.g. SJ8398 or 33/8398 ) to vice-county number (i.e. VC59). The converter should work with all valid GB locations, multiple VC numbers will be returned if the area specified spans a boundary.
Used in conjunction with the OS gazetteer this can work well to place named locations in vice-counties or to highlight ambiguities. For Irish localities there is a separate Irish vice-county conversion tool
It's also worth trying herbariaunited's place name to vice-county converter derived from the USGIA gazetteer.
Reference: SJ8398 Vice county: VC59 South Lancashire
Lat,Long: (53.478198, -2.256178) (53° 28′ 41.51″ N 2° 15′ 22.24″ W)
(NB. the map is not plotted at the same scale or relative size as the VC-boundary diagram)
Watsonian Vice-counties of Great Britain and Ireland VC1. West Cornwall with Scilly VCH1. South Kerry VC2. East Cornwall VCH2. North Kerry VC3. South Devon VCH3. West Cork VC4. North Devon VCH4. Mid-Cork VC5. South Somerset VCH5. East Cork VC6. North Somerset VCH6. Waterford VC7. North Wiltshire VCH7. South Tipperary VC8. South Wiltshire VCH8. Limerick VC9. Dorset VCH9. Clare VC10. Isle of Wight VCH10. North Tipperary VC11. South Hampshire VCH11. Kilkenny VC12. North Hampshire VCH12. Wexford VC13. West Sussex VCH13. Carlow VC14. East Sussex VCH14. Laois VC15. East Kent VCH15. South-east Galway VC16. West Kent VCH16. West Galway VC17. Surrey VCH17. North-east Galway VC18. South Essex VCH18. Offaly VC19. North Essex VCH19. Kildare VC20. Hertfordshire VCH20. Wicklow VC21. Middlesex VCH21. Dublin VC22. Berkshire VCH22. Meath VC23. Oxfordshire VCH23. Westmeath VC24. Buckinghamshire VCH24. Longford VC25. East Suffolk VCH25. Roscommon VC26. West Suffolk VCH26. East Mayo VC27. East Norfolk VCH27. West Mayo VC28. West Norfolk VCH28. Sligo VC29. Cambridgeshire VCH29. Leitrim VC30. Bedfordshire VCH30. Cavan VC31. Huntingdonshire VCH31. Louth VC32. Northamptonshire VCH32. Monaghan VC33. East Gloucestershire VCH33. Fermanagh VC34. West Gloucestershire VCH34. East Donegal VC35. Monmouthshire VCH35. West Donegal VC36. Herefordshire VCH36. Tyrone VC37. Worcestershire VCH37. Armagh VC38. Warwickshire VCH38. Down VC39. Staffordshire VCH39. Antrim VC40. Shropshire VCH40. Londonderry VC41. Glamorgan VC42. Breconshire VC43. Radnorshire VC44. Carmarthenshire VC45. Pembrokeshire VC46. Cardiganshire VC47. Montgomeryshire VC48. Merionethshire VC49. Caernarfonshire VC50. Denbighshire VC51. Flintshire VC52. Anglesey VC53. South Lincolnshire VC54. North Lincolnshire VC55. Leicestershire with Rutland VC56. Nottinghamshire VC57. Derbyshire VC58. Cheshire VC59. South Lancashire VC60. West Lancashire VC61. South-east Yorkshire VC62. North-east Yorkshire VC63. South-west Yorkshire VC64. Mid-west Yorkshire VC65. North-west Yorkshire VC66. Durham VC67. South Northumberland VC68. North Northumberland VC69. Westmoreland with Furness VC70. Cumberland VC71. Isle of Man VC72. Dumfriesshire VC73. Kircudbrightshire VC74. Wigtownshire VC75. Ayrshire VC76. Renfrewshire VC77. Lanarkshire VC78. Peebleshire VC79. Selkirkshire VC80. Roxburghshire VC81. Berwickshire VC82. East Lothian VC83. Midlothian VC84. West Lothian VC85. Fife VC86. Stirlingshire VC87. West Perth VC88. Mid Perth VC89. East Perth VC90. Angus VC91. Kincardineshire VC92. South Aberdeenshire VC93. North Aberdeenshire VC94. Banffshire VC95. Moray VC96. Easterness VC97. Westerness VC98. Main Argyll VC99. Dunbartonshire VC100. Clyde Isles VC101. Kintyre VC102. South Ebudes VC103. Mid Ebudes VC104. North Ebudes VC105. West Ross VC106. East Ross VC107. East Sutherland VC108. West Sutherland VC109. Caithness VC110. Outer Hebrides VC111. Orkney VC112. Shetland VC113/VCS/VCI. Channel Islands
Further background information is available on wikipedia . The BSBI vice-county census catalogue and atlas project have detail of present-day plant distribution.
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