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 on the Jurassic Way, on a small hill about 1km to the south-east of Winwick. The gnomon is a vertical telegraph pole and two arcs of hour numerals are laid out in the grass, for the summer and winter solstices. Roman hour numerals are used, in 5mm galvanised steel, with IIII - XII - IIII - VIII for summer, 600mm high, and IX - XII - III for winter, 750 high, all in Times New Roman font and read from the south. N, S, E and W markers are in place around the gnomon, and also 18m out beyond the hour arcs. The shadow of the gnomon indicates the time, to be read at the appropriate arc or interpolated between the arcs.
Zodiac signs and an explanatory plaque were in progress at December 2021.
Refreshments are available at the Polo Pavilion in Winwick.
Ref: S. Manston: ’The Winwick Hall Sundial’, BSS Bulletin 33(iii), 17—20 (September 2021).
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Winwick Hall, West Haddon Gated Road, Winwick, NN67PD, Northamptonshire
