>Are you familiar with the city? < Not very, though my parents lived in Ryde on the Isle of Wight (IOW) for some years - that's the the roughly-rhombus shaped island off the south coast of England - and Ryde is just about directly opposite to Gosport. However when I had connexions with the IOW, Gosport wasn't as 'desirable' as it might be today and as you will know Island people are very insular!
>about 460m due West of the dial, there's what appears to be a large pond, next to a circular gazebo-like structure< I think that might be the reused cockle pool of the Middle Ages (and later) - now a public amenity - and the gazebo might even be a bandstand (Gosport has an excellent and thriving Brass Band) - however I haven't lived in that part of the South since the 1960s so I am probably wrong! As you probably know, Britain (and England in particular) is filled with such memories of the past and we tend to take them for granted until others mention them!. Sorry I cannot be of more help. Patrick --------------------------------------------------- https://lists.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/sundial
