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Northumberlandia
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Northumberlandia
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Northumberlandia
Phone:
+44 1925 852005

Address:
Cramlington, England

Northumberlandia is a huge land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England. Made of 1.5 million tonnes of earth from neighbouring Shotton Surface Mine, it is 34 metres high and 400 metres long, set in a 19 hectares public park. Its creators claim that it is the largest land sculpture in female form in the world.It is intended to be a major tourist attraction, with the developers hoping that it will attract an additional 200,000 visitors a year to Northumberland. It was officially opened by Anne, Princess Royal on 29 August 2012. A day-long Community Opening Event on 20 October 2012 marked the park becoming fully open to the public.It has been nicknamed Slag Alice by some – a pun on slag and Slack Alice .
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