Sheffield: the Cholera Monument
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Sheffield: the Cholera Monument
Image: © Chris Downer Taken: 29 Apr 2010
This monument stands on a slope to the southeast of Sheffield city centre and is a memorial to 402 people of the city who died in a cholear epidemic in 1832. It was erected three years later.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.375659
Longitude
-1.458686