Elephant and Castle, Peckforton
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Elephant and Castle, Peckforton
Image: © Sue Booth Taken: 6 Dec 2015
Superb sandstone carved castle on the back of an elephant. Just because! Carved in 1859 from a single piece of sandstone, quarried from the same place as the stone for Peckforton Castle, and by the same stonemason, James Watson
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Image Location
Latitude
53.104401
Longitude
-2.691671