Northumberlandia

Northumberlandia (the "Lady of the North") is a huge land art sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England.

[2] Designed by American landscape architect Charles Jencks,[5] the sculpture was built on the Blagdon Estate, owned by Matt Ridley, a journalist, businessman and author of The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature.

[citation needed] The £2.5 million cost was borne by the Blagdon Estate and the Banks Group, who carried out the construction work.

For this project, it was decided to use part of the excavated material to make a land sculpture rather than return it all to the surface mine, as is normally done at the end of such operations.

In April 2023, Northumberland Wildlife Trust reported that the work was suffering excessive wear, due to visitors failing to stay on the designated paths.