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Mud Maid, Cornwall, England, 2004

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"Abandoned at the onset of World War I, the Lost Gardens of Heligan were restored in the 1990s to their Victorian roots. The Mud Maid was designed just as she appears here."

— From "Lost in Cornwall," July/August 2004, National Geographic Traveler magazine

Photograph by James C. Richardson

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