Slate Bowl Sundial, Holker Hall Cumbria
N 54° 11.333 W 002° 59.242
30U E 500824 N 6004537
Quick Description: A large slate bowl sundial in the wild flower meadow of Holker Hall. Designed by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd. A quite wonderful piece of slate.
Location: Northwest England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 4/15/2007 1:12:28 AM
Waymark Code: WM1DRW
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Long Description:Although visible from perimeter fence, you will have pay an entrance fee to get close.
Walk west from front of house garden, through the Kissing Gate into wild flower meadow, beyond the labyrinth, is the slate sundial. Five feet in diameter and weighing nearly a tonne, this shallow blue-grey Lakeland Slate bowl was designed by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd, of the British Sundial Society, and emulates the earliest known sundial invented some 2300 years ago. Around the rim is information to correct the displayed time for month.
Mounted on large slab of slate in grassy meadow.
Parking in Holker Hall's car park, sometimes free, if no event on.
N 54 11.181 W 002 58.972 car park. Otherwise free parking at Holker former school (waymark).
Holker Hall & Gardens
Cark-in-Cartmel,
Nr Grange-over-Sands,
Cumbria
England
LA11 7PL
Holker Hall (
visit link)
