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This article is about the Cheshire landmark. For the variety of flowering plant named "White Nancy" see Lamium maculatum
White Nancy is a well-known local landmark in the town of
Bollington,
Cheshire, which is used as the logo for the town. It is positioned on the northern front of the
Saddle of Kerridge (at ); the
Gritstone Trail long-distance footpath runs past it. White Nancy commands extensive views of Cheshire; on clear days, the
Manchester cityscape,
Jodrell Bank,
Winter Hill in
Lancashire and
Snowdonia in
Wales can be seen.
The
grade-II-listed edifice was originally an open summer house built by the Gaskell family of
Ingersley Hall, Bollington in around 1817. It commemorates the
Battle of Waterloo,
however the origins of the name are uncertain. The Nancy in question might have been a member of the Gaskell family, or perhaps the horse that laboured to cart the building stone to construct White Nancy.
White Nancy has been decorated on numerous occasions. In
2002 it was stylised with the
Union Flag to signify the
Golden Jubilee of Her Majesty the
Queen, as a
plum pudding during the festive season,
and bright
pink in the year 2005. During
World War II White Nancy was painted
brown and
green so that
German pilots couldn't navigate by the highly visible landmark.
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