[Nelly]

My home town is 30 odd miles west from our nations capital London. 300,000 residents give or take a few.
We are lucky to have two great urban legends.
The first is, we have a statue of queen Victoria in one of the main streets, it was built to commemorate a vist she paid to the town. Allegedly she asked for her statue to be placed looking out of the town and not into it (as is the normal case with the monach and her subjects). Apparently she didn't like the town lol.



The second,
We have a lovely park in the centre of the town built on the ruins of the Abbey, when Henry the 8th decided to divorce his wifes he had to create the church of England. He needed cash to do this so basically ransacked the catholic churches abbeys. The lion was errected in 1886 to comemorate the men of the Royal Berkshire battalion who died in the Afgan campagin.
Urban legend has it that the lions legs are wrong, it is walking with them moving in an un-natural way. Allegedly the sculptor was horrified with his error and comitted suicide.