Levens Hall Wall Dial - Cumbria UK
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martlakes
N 54° 15.599 W 002° 46.509
30U E 514646 N 6012471
Levens Hall is the home of the Bagots, and with the garden, is open to the public part of the year (entrance fee). One of the buildings has an old wall mounted dial. It is visible from the road outside if you don't wish to go in or it's closed.
Waymark Code: WM354V
Location: United Kingdom
Date Posted: 02/11/2008
Views: 20
Levens Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th Century pele tower, which was expanded and rebuilt towards the end of the 16th Century. It contains a collection of Jacobean furniture, fine paintings, the earliest English patchwork and many other beautiful objects.
The garden was conceived by the French garden designer Guillaume Beaumont in the late 17th century, when the craze for the precise clipping of evergreens into fantastical shapes swept from Holland, via France, into the gardens of the English aristocracy.
To view the dial from outside, walk south on the A6 100m from the entrance to the Hall. Best seen from the east side of the road.
Sundial Type: Vertical - Wall mounted dial plate
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