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Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate?Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate? include possible sources for the data.

Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate? include possible sources for the data.

Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate? include possible sources for the data.

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Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to answers to another GIS SE questionOrdnance Survey grids - download or generate? include possible sources for the data.

Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to another GIS SE question include possible sources for the data.

Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to Ordnance Survey grids - download or generate? include possible sources for the data.

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Specifying "British National Grids" in the projection sets the projection of your data (regardless of what data your shapefile will contain). It DOES NOT populate the shapefile with vectors/polygons of the national grids.

In order to see the British National grids as polygons, you need to either find a source that already has the data, or digitize the grids yourself. The answers to another GIS SE question include possible sources for the data.