Human sundial at Coolings Green & Pleasant
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Human sundial at Coolings Green & Pleasant by Marathon as part of the Geograph project.
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Human sundial at Coolings Green & Pleasant
Image: © Marathon Taken: 14 Apr 2014
Coolings Green & Pleasant is a garden centre at Knockholt which, unusually for a garden centre, includes a six acre nature reserve at the back with wallabies and farm animals. The nature reserve is free to go round and is especially popular in school holidays. Within the nature reserve is this human sundial. It uses a person's own shadow to tell the correct 'clock' time (GMT and BST) all year round. It is tailor made for its own latitude and longitude. The two rings of hour markers ensure that the sundial layout does not need to change when the clocks go forward or back. On this side of the fence are twelve month markers so that the person stands on the correct month and knowing whether it is GMT or BST you check where your shadow is on the back or front markers respectively, beyond the fence. Another example is at Charing in Kent http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2599319
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Image Location
Latitude
51.315463
Longitude
0.116957