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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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Needwood & S Derbyshire Claylands, Hoar Cross

A Noon Mark in the woodland picnic area, made by the National Forest Company. It is located about 4 miles north of Yoxall on the A515, close to Newchurch and west of Tatenhill airfield. A vertical slit has been cut in the trunk of the tree, 1250mm high by 35 wide. The trunk is set vertically on a circular concrete base about 1750 dia by 320 high. This is No 1 of a set of six similar devices erected by the National Forest Company in Leics, Derbys and Staffs (SRNs 7698 - 7702, and 7272).

 

Needwood & S Derbyshire Claylands, Brackenhurst Wood, Jackson’s Bank, Hoar Cross, DE13 8RG, Staffordshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7272 2006 2011 52.81139, -1.78472
N 52° 48' 41", W 01° 47' 05"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
SK146238
Condition Type Access
Good Noon mark Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
David Nash English Oak Approx 4000h x 2550 girth