File:Sundial, Nocton - geograph.org.uk - 811216.jpg
Sundial,_Nocton_-_geograph.org.uk_-_811216.jpg (640 × 480 pixels, file size: 90 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
Captions
Summary
[edit]DescriptionSundial, Nocton - geograph.org.uk - 811216.jpg |
English: Sundial, Nocton On the Green is a sundial, which was designed to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. The 'hours' represent the history of Nocton and the family names of the villagers are inscribed on the gnomon, as of 2002. The Dandelion sundial was designed by Cliff Baxendale a resident of Nocton.
By the sundial is this plaque, which reads: - Nocton History Time Plaque 7am Stone Axe Heads (800BC) found when digging School foundations 8am Romans Skeletons and pottery recovered from burials on Village Green. 9am British Boat (c327AD) discovered in 1811 in the Cardyke. 10am Normans DArcys took over Nocton from Saxons. Domesday Book entry. 11am Black Death 1349 Carried off the Prior from the Abbey, the Vicar and the last of the DArcys. Noon Henry VIII and Katherine Howard visited Hall 13th October 1541 Commemorative tree planted. 1pm Townleys Catholics in a very Protestant England 16091650 2pm East India Company Founder members live in the Village. 3pm 177693 Land enclosed and a wind pump built. 4pm Earl and Countess of Ripon Prosperity Robinson, Prime Minister Aug.1827Jan.1828. They built the present School, Church Hall, Poorhouse and other Buildings. 5pm The Potato Railway Brought from trenches of Arras after 1st World War to service estate lands 6pm Hall used as hospital for USA airmen in 2nd World War. 7pm Queens Jubilee 2nd June 2002 Flowers celebrate present agriculture trends. |
Date | Taken on 20 May 2008 |
Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | Dave Hitchborne |
Attribution (required by the license) InfoField | Dave Hitchborne / Sundial, Nocton / |
InfoField | Dave Hitchborne / Sundial, Nocton |
Camera location | 53° 09′ 53″ N, 0° 25′ 00″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 53.164790; -0.416700 |
---|
Object location | 53° 09′ 53″ N, 0° 25′ 01″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 53.164800; -0.416900 |
---|
Licensing
[edit]This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Dave Hitchborne and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 13:23, 20 February 2011 | 640 × 480 (90 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Sundial, Nocton On the Green is a sundial, which was designed to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II's Golden Jubilee. The 'hours' represent the history of Nocton and the family names of the villagers ar |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|
Structured data
Items portrayed in this file
depicts
some value
53°9'53.24"N, 0°25'0.12"W
20 May 2008
53°9'53.28"N, 0°25'0.84"W
- Nocton photographs taken on 2008-05-20
- Information field template with formatting
- Files with coordinates missing SDC location of creation (53° N, 1° W)
- CC-BY-SA-2.0
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC depicts
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC location of creation
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC MIME type
- Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland missing SDC geograph.org.uk image ID
- Geograph images of places mentioned in the Domesday Book
- Images by Dave Hitchborne