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| Serpentine Wood, Kendal | ||
| Serpentine Wood | ||
| locality:- | Kendal | |
| civil parish:- | Kendal (formerly Westmorland) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | wood | |
| coordinates:- | SD50949278 (etc) | |
| 1Km square:- | SD5092 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD59 | |
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 CDD95.jpg (taken 3.6.2015)  CDD96.jpg (taken 3.6.2015) |
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| evidence:- | old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 38 8) placename:- Serpentine Walks |
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| source data:- | Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25
inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton,
Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948. |
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 CAT73.jpg Milipedede sculpture (taken 29.5.2014)  CAT76.jpg Sophie's Gate (taken 29.5.2014)  CDD99.jpg A xylophone. (taken 3.6.2015)  CDN26.jpg Alphabet. (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN27.jpg Butterfly. (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN28.jpg Ladybird. (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN29.jpg Peacock throne? (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN30.jpg Looks like a rat. (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN33.jpg Heron. (taken 5.7.2015) |
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 CDD97.jpg Cow parsley. (taken 3.6.2015)  CDD98.jpg Perwinkle. (taken 3.6.2015)  CDE01.jpg Limestone. (taken 3.6.2015)  CAT71.jpg (taken 29.5.2014)  CAT72.jpg (taken 29.5.2014)  CDE05.jpg (taken 3.6.2015) |
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 CDN31.jpg Plinth for the time gun. (taken 5.7.2015)  CDN32.jpg Plinth for the time gun. (taken 5.7.2015) |
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| A gun was mounted on a plinth in the wood, 1873, which was fired by remote control
from a shop on Highgate, Kendal, at one o'clock daily. A time signal for all. It was
removed in World War II. |
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| Local apparatus to give an accurate Greenwich time signal was installed in various
towns from the 1850s. The new system of railways made local time less and less convenient;
the new electric telegraph provided the means of distributing the time. Time balls
were arranged in some towns, but a time gun was an alternative. Edinburgh had both:
a time ball on Carlton Hill was in operation from 1858; in 1861 the one o'clock gun
was set up at Edinburgh Castle, and controlled by the Royal Observatory there. It
still fires and makes the tourists jump! |
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| Howse, Derek: 1997 (edn): Greenwich Time and the Longitude: Philip Wilson Publishers
(London) |
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