'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' Size:M: 60 x 40cm A witch standing by a

A witch standing by a tree points at a young couple on horseback

19th October 1961

This is one of a number of effigies in Purbeck marble from the church

In the centre a man wearing steam driven boots has ground to a halt

'The Falls of Wilberforce, estimated at 250 feet high' Size:M: 60 x 40cm A witch standing by aOn the gruelling land journey back to Fort Enterprise, during which John Franklin and his men were reduced to eating their own boots, they discovered the Wilberforce Falls on the Hood River. John Franklin's expedition of 1819 22 travelled via the Coppermine River to map the Canadian Arctic coast, as part of efforts to find the fabled North West Passage. Illustration from Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, by John Franklin (London,