Commemorated on 2 plaques
John Harrison 1693-1776 inventor of the Marine Chronometer lived and died in a house on this site
Summit House, Red Lion Square, Camden, WC1, London, United Kingdom where they lived and died (1776)
John Harrison the inventor of the marine chronometer which first allowed the location of longitude at sea by mechanical means, was baptised in Wragby parish in 1693 and spent his childhood here in Foulby. He died in 1776.
Doncaster Road, Foulby, United Kingdom where they spent his childhood