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Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead, Cumbria, SD35239804 -- Vertical declining dial:-
Lat 54[d] 22[m] 10[s] Decl 30[d] 20[m] / PI Long 35[d] 43[m] 10[s] / ... 1845 ... / LOND 11 53 / ...
The position of Hawkshead is 54d 22m 6s N, 2d 59m 6s W (the grammar school is not at the village centre); the prime meridian used by the dial maker is not Greenwich, which only became an international standard in 1884.
(photo 16.9.2005)

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