象堡(Elephant and Castle)是倫敦市中心的一個主要交通路口之一,也是倫敦的一個地區名稱,在行政區劃上屬於南華克倫敦自治市。象堡這個名字來自於一個旅館[1]

Elephant and Castle
坐標:51°29′42″N 0°06′04″W / 51.495°N 0.101°W / 51.495; -0.101
主權國家英國
國家英格蘭
區域
郵鎮郵區倫敦SE1, SE11, SE17
電話區號020
OS 格網參考TQ319789
名譽郡大倫敦
警察倫敦警察廳
消防倫敦消防隊
救護倫敦救護站

參考資料

  1. ^ Compare Simpson, Jacqueline. Elephant and Castle. Green Men & White Swans: The Folklore of British Pub Names. Random House. 2011: 90–92 [11 February 2015]. ISBN 9780099520177. (原始內容存檔於2016-04-22). The most famous pub of this name has long been demolished, but the area of London where it once stood is still known as the Elephant. [...] In the Middle Ages the elephant was regularly linked with the 'castle' both in the written descriptions in Bestiaries and in visual art, e.g. in church carvings.