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Sundial in Bodelwyddan Castle Walled Garden
Bodelwyddan, Denbighshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 6 December 2002
- Locality
- Bodelwyddan Castle
- Community
- Bodelwyddan
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25883, -3.50474
- Cadw reference
- 80756
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
At a path crossing in the southern part of the walled garden.
History
A sundial by Troughton of London, probably early C19, set up on a stone pillar as part of the garden improvements designed by Sir T H Mawson for the Aitken family, tenants of Bodelwyddan, in 1910. The dial is perhaps by the workshop of Edward Troughton, instrument maker, d1835.
Exterior
Bronze sundial with maker''s name, set on a baluster-shaped sandstone pillar on a pedestal of 2 circular steps.
Reason for designation
Listed for group value with Bodelwyddan Walled Garden.
Nearby in the register
- Wall of Bodelwyddan Castle Garden with Bothy at W and Gateway at ENo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Obelisk in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Play House in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Garden Shelter in Bodelwyddan Castle GardenNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.