John Hall wrote:
I would assume that it's the famous Radcliffe Observatory site, which I
believe has a record going back as far as 1815.

Just found this link back to the original debate about Oxford sunshine
totals. though not sure if this is the Ratcliffe Observatoary site

http://groups.google.co.uk/group/uk....d72d9b00ddd6a7

Steve J, BWS