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Cambridge-Heidelberg Partnership Association |
WORKSHEETS FOR EASTER 2000
EUROPE AT THE MILLENIUM - SEEING TIME
Note that some places may not be accessible to the public, and in some cases there may be a charge.
| Cambridge | Royal Greenwich Observatory site, Madingley Road | grounds | 1975 (original RGO founded in 1675)
moved from Herstmonceaux with RGO in 1990 |
| Cambridge | Tennis Court Road | Pembroke College (can be seen from road) | can be seen on AT&T web-site (link from weather links in web-site http://go.to/chpa) |
| Cambridge | St Botolph's Church | south-west buttress of tower | unknown date, replacing an earlier one that was repainted in 1614 |
| Cambridge | Little St Mary's | S.W. face of S.W. diagonal buttress | scratch-dial |
| Cambridge | Queens' College | Old Court | 1642, redecorated before 1733.
can be used as a moon-dial. |
| Cambridge | King's College Chapel | south wall, east of south door | unknown date |
| Cambridge | King's College | near S.E. of chapel | cube, incised 1649, given to College in1938 |
| Cambridge | Gonville and Caius College | inside of Gate of Honour (from Senate House Passage) | 1963, on site of earlier one
polyhedral |
| Cambridge | Trinity College | Great Court | set up in 1704, dial renewed 1795 |
| Cambridge | Magdalene, Benson Court (left of Bridge Street leaving Cambridge) | high up on brick wall | 1986 |
| Cambridge | Milton Country Park | 2000, to mark millennium
trees planted at points, human required as gnomon | |
| Comberton | between Comberton and Toft on B1046 | grey slab in grass verge
north side of road (by a tree) | 1984, to mark centenary of meridian line 0
dial may be read with a foot in each hemisphere |
| Ely | Cathedral | south wall, east of south door | unknown date |
| Hauxton | Church | right of south door | scratch dial, gnomon missing from hole |
| Peterborough | Guildhall | south face | 1707 |
| NW of
St Neot's | Great Staughton, 5 miles NW of St Neot's on A645 | stone cube with stone ball on top, on stone pillar with brick base (west of White Hart pub) | dated 1637 with initials of original owner, Edmund Ibbott. |