I've long insisted on the importance of landmarks within landscape studies, and specifically Historic Landscape Characterisation. They define and declare territory, they act as waymarks, in fact they have a host of uses, including projecting image and ideology. One such is the Wellington Arch at Hyde Park Corner. Nowadays it is more comfortably known just as "Hyde Park Corner". The arch has lost its specific association with Wellington as a result of a change of statue on the top. Nowadays it is a generic personification of VictoryHowever, formerly it had a statue of Wellington (click here for English Heritage record and photograph), which shows a "general" view of the Duke of Wellington (their pun not mine) on the Wellington Arch on Hyde Park Corner. The statue was designed by Matthew Wyatt and erected on top of Decimus Burton's Triumphal Arch. It is nearly 30 feet high and in the 1880s was moved to Aldershot.
