Driftwood Nellie

This is the latest addition to Sudeley Castle's magnolia walk - slightly unexpected in a mediaeval castle garden, but there are early records of elephants in England...

"...England’s first and most surprising elephant was given to Henry III in 1255 by his cousin King Louis IX of France: “… a beast most strange and wonderful to the English people, sith most seldome or never any of that kind had been seene in England before that time”... https://blog.oup.com/2016/02/elephants-in-britain-history/