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 Hawkshead Grammar School, Hawkshead
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


photograph
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)  

notes:-  
Cumbrian Sundials database, R Sylvester, 29.5.2008:-
"Hawkshead / Above door of Grammar School (now museum) / Redone by BSS members, 1997"
made 1845
British Sundial Society reference number 1134

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