Main Street, Dent in 1973

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Adam Sedgwick Fountain, Dent

  • Description

    "The large block of granite, with drinking fountain, commemorates Adam Sedgwick (1785 - 1873), an important figure in the development of geology in the 19th century. He was born in the village and eventually became a professor of geology at the University of Cambridge, where the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences was opened in 1904." Photo by Jim Barton, 1973.

  • Owner

    Jim Barton

  • Source

    Geograph (Geograph)

  • License

    What does this mean? Creative Commons License

  • Further information

    Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/4289369
    Resource type: Image
    Added by: Simon Cotterill
    Last modified: 9 months, 1 week ago
    Viewed: 142 times
    Picture Taken: 1973-09-09

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