Gas Lamp, Malvern Common

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Gas Lamp, Malvern Common by Bob Embleton as part of the Geograph project.

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Gas Lamp, Malvern Common

Image: © Bob Embleton Taken: 21 Jan 2006

Several roads are still lit by gas in the Malverns. Locally it is supposed that it was these lamps that inspired C.S.Lewis (who was at a boarding school here as a child) to include the gas lamp on the route into Narnia.

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Image Location

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Latitude
52.101078
Longitude
-2.328432