Spion Kop
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Spion Kop
Image: © Mick Garratt Taken: 26 Mar 2009
The name of a circular plantation which dominates the vista from Grey Towers (Image) the former home of Middlesbrough ironmaster William Randolph Innis Hopkins. Spion Kop was the name of a famous British defeat in the Boer War. The plantation presumably dates from that time.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.506081
Longitude
-1.188732