Sundial Trail
Campden Sundial Trail
Children at St. James C of E Primary School in Chipping Campden have been finding out how to tell the time without digital or even wind-up watches!
They have been involved in a project with CADHAS (Campden and District Historical & Archaeological Society) to study the sundials in Campden’s High Street and have now produced a Sundial Trail leaflet.
The Trail goes from St. James’s Church along the High Street, showing seven sundials on the side of buildings. The children discovered how sundials work and did their own drawings, some of which are in the leaflet. Campden has 12 old sundials, an unusually large number for a town of its size. In addition there are many more recent horizontal sundials, mostly in private gardens.
Jill Wilson, Vice-President of CADHAS, is a member of the British Sundial Society and accompanied the children on their discoveries. She explained that some sundials have mottoes and suggested that they made some up. One of the mottoes has been put in the leaflet and will be printed in a future issue of the British Sundial Society Bulletin.
Look at the sun
Watch it shine
Look at the sundial
Tell the time
What would your motto be? Email us and we will put it on this page.
The free Sundial Trail leaflet is now available from the Information Centre.