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Time Shadow Sundial, Bonc yr Hafod Country Park

Time Shadow Sundial, Bonc yr Hafod Country Park

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Time Shadow Sundial, Bonc yr Hafod Country Park

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Location: North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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Bonc yr Hafod is a country park, on the former site of Hafod Colliery, near Johnstown and Pentre Bychan in Wrexham County Borough, Wales. The country park is centred on a former spoil tip hill, known locally as "Picnic Mountain", rising up 150 metres.

It has a beautiful sun dial called the time shadow of a man kneeling.

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There are a series of monoliths marking major view points along the paths with heritage boards integrated into them. Some illustrate how the site would have looked in 1962 before the colliery’s closure from the specific viewpoint of visitors. Meanwhile another discusses the formation of coal in the Carboniferous c. 300 million years ago. The circuitous walking trails are thus monumentalised in stone; a landscape-scale stone circle.

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Elevation 170 m

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Location: North Wales, Wales, United Kingdom

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