Sundial Trails and Articles

Sundials of Scotland (and other places)

Sundial Trails and Published Articles

This trail covers a wide variety of 17 sundials at 11 different locations in East Lothian (with a slight incursion over the border into Midlothian). It includes several different types of sundials, including the most beautiful sundial of all at Lennoxlove.

The East Lothian Sundial Trail

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This trail covers the famous Royal Mile in Edinburgh from the Castle at the top to the Palace of Holyroodhouse at the bottom, seeing a variety of sundials along the way. It includes a visit to the National Museum of Scotland to see some significant dials.

The Royal Mile Sundial Trail

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This is actually three trails in one — The Direct Route to St Andrews, The Scenic Route to St Andrews and St Andrews itself. These can be undertaken individually, as groups of two or all three altogether in the long days of early summer.

Sundial Trails to the Home of Golf

Go for a wonderful and interesting drive along narrow country roads in the Duns area of the Scottish Borders and see 12 sundials on churches, other buildings and mercat crosses.

The Duns Sundial Trail - A Day Out in the Scottish Borders

Follow in the footsteps of Victorian architect Thomas Ross and see several of the sundials that he sketched plus some others as you drive from South Queensferry over the Forth Bridge into West Fife and then over the Kincardine Bridge to Airth.

The West Fife Sundial Trail - In the Footsteps of Thomas Ross

I have written the following articles which have been published in “The Bulletin” - the quarterly magazine of the British Sundial Society. Click on the article name to be taken to the article.

IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF THOMAS ROSS Series

Part 1 — Scotland’s Oldest Sundials—The Forerunner to Lectern Dials

Part 2 — The Sundials at Craigiehall

Part 3 — The Sundials of James Gifford

Part 4 — The Hidden Sundials of South Queensferry

Part 5 — The Fettes College Sundial

Part 6 — The Sundials of Robert Palmer, Schoolmaster

Part 7 — Scotlands Grandest Sundials

Part 8 — The Haddington Bowl

Part 9 — The Mercat Crosses of Scotland and their Sundials

Part 10 — A Mixed Bag of Sundials in Edinburgh

Part 11 — The Dyallis of William Aytoun