BRIDOL is the British Sundial Society's Register of Fixed and Mass Dials, which gives detail and photographs of about 8000 fixed sundials and 3000 mass dials in the UK.
Some of these are in private gardens, but the majority are publicly available.
This important dial of 1816 is on Dial Cottage, the nationally important but inadequately cared for home of George Stephenson and his son Robert. The cottage fronts on the B1318. The dial was made by George but the calculations were done by Robert, agerd 13, a feat beyond his father. The dial is made for a south wall but the cottage is not south and the dial is wedged out to compensate for this. A declining dial was probably too difficult for Robert at the time, which does not detract from his achievement.
