Gregory's Meridian Line, 2015

St Andrews

The medieval town of St Andrews has staked a claim to unseat Greenwich as the place where time began.

The 17th Century Scottish astronomer and scientific pioneer James Gregory laid down a meridian line across the floor of his lab at St Andrews University in 1673, almost 200 years before the Greenwich Meridian was established and arbitrarily adopted as the world’s official prime meridian.

Quoted from the University of St Andrews website.