| Description | Meteorological data for the Dartington Hall estate, Torquay, and Marley Farm, Rattery. Includes rainfall and temperature records measured from Oct 1930, and sunshine duration measured from 1941. Includes annual summaries for most years, with charts and comparative data for Princetown, Totnes, and Torquay.
Weather measurements were first undertaken by Laboratory scientist J B E Patterson. When the estate laboratory closed in 1946, staff and students of Dartington Hall School continued to take measurements.
Dartington Hall was a voluntary observatory reporting to the Meteorological Office and designated as number 1695/5. |