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| sundial, Seathwaite | ||
| site name:- | Holy Trinity Church | |
| locality:- | Seathwaite | |
| civil parish:- | Dunnerdale-with-Seathwaite (formerly Lancashire) | |
| county:- | Cumbria | |
| locality type:- | sundial | |
| coordinates:- | SD22919613 | |
| 1Km square:- | SD2296 | |
| 10Km square:- | SD29 | |
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 BQO74.jpg (taken 29.5.2009)  BQO75.jpg The inscription is marred by the screw hole:- "BULLMAN [ U]GHTON" (taken 29.5.2009) |
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| evidence:- | old text:- Martineau 1855 |
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| source data:- | Guide book, A Complete Guide to the English Lakes, by Harriet
Martineau, published by John Garnett, Windermere, Westmorland,
and by Whittaker and Co, London, 1855; published 1855-76. goto sourcePage 110:- "[Holy Trnity, Seathwaite] ... A little dial, on a whitened post in the middle of the enclosure, tells the time to the neighbours who have no clocks. ..." |
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 BLK43.jpg "THIS STONE WAS USED AT GATESKELL FARM ABOUT THE MIDDLE OF THE 18TH CENTURY, AS A STOOL FOR CLIPPING SHEEP BY THE REV. ROBERT WALKER VICAR OF THE PARISH OF SEATHWAITE, REVERED BY THE TITLE OF THE 'WONDERFUL WALKER'." (taken 17.11.2005) |
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| notes:- |
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:- |
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| "Seathwaite, Dunnerdale / On rock left of church door / Originally on wooden plinth" |
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| made 1780 |
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| British Sundial Society reference number 188 |
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