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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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Star of the East, Mablethorpe

Not a true sundial, but of interest. Located in the ’pullover’ (a boat ramp) at the seaward end of the High Street. Described as a ’Solar Almanac’. The steel column serves as a gnomon which uses sunrise shadows, on black marble lines set in paving, to mark events such as solstices and equinoxes; also Shakespease’s birthday and dates of important events in Mablethorpe’s history - the Great Flood of 1953, the Mablethorpe Meteor of 1898, and a visit by Lord Tennyson.

 

Image of dial 7463
2012

Star of the East, High Street, Mablethorpe, Lincolnshire

SRN Year Recorded Coords
S7463 2007 2012 53.33333, 0.26667
N 53° 20' 00", E 00° 16' 00"
National Grid 3 Words Sundial Atlas
TF508853
Condition Type Access
Good Other Open
Maker Materials Dimensions
Michael Trainor Steel, marble 14000h x ca 20000w