Elephant in a longboat, Kirkby
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Elephant in a longboat, Kirkby
Image: © Mike Pennington Taken: 23 Aug 2017
Inspired by the short nonsense poem by Edward Lear entitled The Enthusiastic Elephant, with the boat represented by a Viking longship to mark Kirkby's Viking heritage ('by' is a Norse suffix meaning a village).
Images are licensed for reuse under creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0
Image Location
Latitude
53.48109
Longitude
-2.887501