Northumberlandia

Northumberlandia

We 'nipped' up to see the 'Naked lady of Cramlington', as we had never seen it properly. M named it 'Titiana' ! It was interesting to walk around and over it. The view of the the open cast mining operation was more interesting however, especially all the giant dumper trucks all parked up in a neat row. The sculpture is an attempt to compensate for the huge earth movements and excavations. There was also a wonderful view of 3 giant wind turbines. This is a very mixed up area, the giant land sculpture being sandwiched also between two busy and noisy roads; one being the A1 northbound.

The jury is out on this one !! although it was certainly very popular with visitors.


Northumberlandia (the "Lady of the North") 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, it is 34 metres (112 feet) high and 400 metres (1,300 feet) long, set in a 19 hectares (47 acres) public park. Its creators claim that it is the largest land sculpture in female form in the world.[1]

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.[2] It was officially opened by Princess Anne on 29 August 2012.[3] A day long Community Opening Event on 20 October 2012 marked the park becoming fully open to the public.[1]

It has been nicknamed "Slag Alice" by some

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