2013

SP4540 : Ride a cock horse - Banbury, Oxfordshire

taken 12 years ago, near to Banbury, Oxfordshire, England

Ride a cock horse - Banbury, Oxfordshire
Ride a cock horse - Banbury, Oxfordshire
"Ride a cock horse to Banbury Cross, to see a fine lady....". As to who she was history is silent, but there are a number of possibilities, all of them so far unproven. It has been suggested that it was a part of some Maytime ritual. A public appeal raised the £180,000 cost and it was sculpted in Stoke on Trent, cast in the Welsh village of Llanrhaedr ym Mochnant and a frog stuck on in Birmingham - all the way to Birmingham for a frog? Some have called it "Fine lady on a white elephant", however be that as it may the statue was unveiled by the Princess Royal on 27th April 2005 - actually a pair of Army Cadets did the unveiling so it is said. The group of people in this photo were Geographers in Banbury for a day celebrating the 8th birthday of our Geograph website. Source:BBC Oxford. Time taken 3.42 pm GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

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Martin Richard Phelan   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 9 March, 2013   (more nearby)
Submitted
Monday, 20 March, 2017
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 4529 4036 [10m precision]
WGS84: 52:3.5865N 1:20.4498W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SP 4529 4037
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SOUTH (about 180 degrees)
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