Old Cumbria Gazetteer

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	placename:-	Slate Sundial, The
	site name:-	Holker Hall
	parish	Lower Holker parish, once in Lancashire
	county:-	Cumbria
		sundial
	coordinates:-	SD35687748
	10Km square:-	SD37
	1Km square	SD3577
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- Analemma, carved on rim. -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- Designer's initials:- -- 'M.A.L.-B. 1992' -- Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd. -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- Longitude. -- 9.6.2011
		Slate Sundial, The -- Holker Hall -- Lower Holker -- Cumbria / -- The time shown at 12:57:32 GMT according to a gps receiver, atomic clock accuracy; needs the correction of the equation of time, the sun is 1 miin 3 secs fast on this date. -- 9.6.2011
	hearsay	Nearly a ton of Burlington blue grey slate, 5 feet diameter, designed by Sir Mark Lennox-Boyd. It is said to be inspired by the earliest known sundial invented in the 3rd century BC.
	Old Cumbria Gazetteer - JandMN: 2008

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