Old Cumbria Gazetteer |
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 Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead |
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| sundial, Hawkshead (2) | ||
| site name:- | Hawkshead Grammar School | |
| locality:- | Hawkshead | |
| civil parish:- | Hawkshead (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | SD35249804 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD3598 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD39 | |
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 BJV37.jpg 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. (taken 16.9.2005) |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "Hawkshead / Above door of Grammar School (now museum) / Redone by BSS members, 1997" |
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| made 1845 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 1134 |
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