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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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161 Orchard Park, Twigworth

The dial is outside the mobile homes in the caravan park. The gnomon is very long, and angle is too low (40 degrees?) reflected in the hour number range, and the hours run anticlockwise, so the dial was designed for the southern hemisphere. Aligned Roman numerals VI - XII - IIII - VII. 8-point compass star labelled to NE etc. EOT table, hard to read in photo but looks like zero at 1 April. All furniture is in relief. Very slender (iron?) pedestal, cast with openwork base. The dial is identical to SRN 6510.

 

Image of dial 6509
2008

161 Orchard Park, Twigworth, Gloucestershire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S6509 2000 2006 51.89917, -2.22222
N 51° 53' 57", W 02° 13' 20"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SO848223
Condition Type Access
Good Horizontal Visible
Maker Materials Dimensions
Cast resin Approx 400 dia