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CENTRE OF ENGLAND...this it taken from the BBC online website....

A tale of two centres
By Brady Haran
BBC News Online

Continuing our series of features looking at the precise centres of Great Britain and the home nations, we find that the heart of England is on a farm in Leicestershire. The "English Midlands" is a vague term covering hundreds of square miles.

So where exactly is the middle of England? SP3696 ?

If pressed, many people guess the answer is Meriden, near Coventry, where an ancient monument marks the "traditional centre of England". The nation's chief mapping agency, the Ordnance Survey, has calculated the exact centre of England to be on Lindley Hall Farm.

To be precise, it puts the centre at grid reference SP 36373.66 96143.05. A small padock near the farm.

The centre co-ordinates were calculated by the Ordnance Survey using a gravitational method. To put it simply, it marks the point where a cardboard cut-out of the country could be balanced on the tip of a pencil (The islands of England were included in the computer calculation).