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.
The dial is hard to find. Enter at Coombshead near Longdales and walk several hundred metres keeping on the same level. When the track veers left and descends, take the right hand branch and the Vista sculpture is a few hundred metres along it on the left, amid smaller and uncarved blocks. The dial occupies one corner of a large sculpted block of St Bees sandstone. The main design is of discarded clothes from someone who has just gone for a dip in the nearby River Eden - trousers, jacket, shoes, cap etc, with a turned-up trouser leg forming the gnomon. The background is a map of the area. Arabic hours 6am to (oddly!) 11pm.
