Editing Walton Hall, West Yorkshire (section)

==Walton Hall sundial==
[[File:Bowlby's sundial, Walton Hall.png|thumb|right|Illustration of the sundial, 1867]]
There is a sundial located on the island to the rear of Walton Hall. It was made by George Boulby in 1813 and is made out of an [[ashlar]] with copper [[gnomon]]s.<ref name="HE">{{NHLE |desc=SUNDIAL ON ISLAND TO REAR OF WALTON HALL, Walton |num=1135580 |access-date=14 February 2021 }}</ref> It is a multi-faceted sundial made out of a [[polyhedron]]. It indicates the time in the following cities around the world: [[Amsterdam]], [[Basel]], [[Boston]], [[Demerara]], [[Madras]], [[Madrid]], [[Mexico City]], [[Moscow]], [[Beijing]], [[Philadelphia]], [[Rome]], and [[Warsaw]].<ref name="HE"/> It was described by Richard Hobson:
:"On the southern side of the mansion, on a slightly elevated mound, stands a most complete and very beautiful sun-dial, deserving of careful observation, inasmuch as it reflects a great credit on the sculptor, the late George Boulby, who was a common mason at the contiguous and rural village of Crofton, in 1813. A work of art, and, especially when it was well known to have been executed by a totally uneducated man – by a common mason, not only devoid of inculcated literary attainments, but by one having had no guiding artistic instruction – by a man having to earn, 'by the sweat of his brow', the few shillings sufficient to enable him to secure some of the works of the philosopher of Athens – by one having to entirely depend upon self counsel so as to elevate him in his financial and social position. I venture to say, considering all these formidable disadvantages and impediments, that this specimen of sculpture is a wonderful development of innate talent, and must be admired and applauded, for generations in futurity, as a relic of the excellence of the scientific execution of the common stone mason.

:"This dial is composed of twenty equilateral triangles, which are so disposed as to form a similar number of individual dials, ten of which, whenever the sun shines out, and whatever may be its altitude in the heavens, are always in use, and ever faithful time-keepers. On these separate dials are engraven, severally, the names of cities in all parts of the globe, which are placed in accordance with their different degrees of longitude, by which arrangement, the solar time, at each of the cities recorded on the different dials, can be simultaneously ascertained.

:"On one occasion Mr. Waterton, having to pass Boulby's house ... saw this dial in the stonemason's yard, for which Boulby asked a mere trifle. The Squire, delighted with the execution and the ingenuity of this simple-minded man, generously presented Boulby with twenty guineas by way of purchase, when the ingenuous and unaffected mason was infinitely more delighted to have the honour of his own artistic skills exhibited at Walton Hall, under the patronage of the Squire, than with the douceur which the sculptor erroneously considered far beyond its value"
:::''Charles Waterton: His Home, Habits and Handiwork. Reminiscences of an Intimate and Most Confiding Personal Association for Nearly Thirty Years'', by Richard Hobson MD. (1866/7)