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 circular dial stands on a square-sectioned sandstone pedestal of slender baluster shape, on three large square sandstone steps, at the junction of Green Lane with Water Street. Patination is heavy and no furniture can be deciphered now, but in 1895 an inscription was just legible "Thos D . . . tt"). The gnomon is a sturdy solid plate with an irregularly waved vertical north side.
Below the sundial on the north side can be seen the old village cast-iron stocks, which were restored in or after 2003, following years of decline after a vehicular accident in the blackout in World War II.
Ref: Brightmer, I - A Village Sign and a Sundial in Lancashire, BSS Bulletin 32(ii), June 2020, pp8-9.
Ref: Sefton - a descriptive and historical account, Carde & Gordon, Green & Co 1893.
Ref: Gregson, W E - Notes taken - Transactions jnl of Historical Society of Lancashire and Cheshire. 1895, 47, , 252-256.
2020
1910
1907
Green Lane, Thornton, L23 1XB, Lancashire
SRN
Year
Recorded
Coords
S8159
17xx
2020
53.50108, -3.00103 N 53° 30' 03.9", W 03° 00' 03.7"
