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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.

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The Old Bridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed

A panel reads: Restored "at the behest of" Ruth Lister, 1995. Sturdy (copper?) gnomon (designed for latitude 43 degrees) with concave curved rear edge. The dial plate is set into the square stone top-stone of a square stone plinth set into the parapet wall at the east side of the bridge. Bridge dials are rare, the next is at Corbridge. This one is said to be a replacement for another dial of unknown age which disappeared in July 1953, when a salmon fisher fastened his net to it, wrenching it into the river. See ’Berwick Bulletin’, Wednesday 21 January 1979, which describes the earlier dial.

 

Image of dial 6352
2008
Image of dial 6352
 
Image of dial 6352
2017
Image of dial 6352
2023

The Old Bridge, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Northumberland

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6352 1995 2006 55.76861, -2.00639
N 55° 46' 07", W 02° 00' 23"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
NT997528
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Bronze 216 dia