Strange mound in Nuneaton

 After being held up at Nuneaton due to faulty signals on my way back to Loughborough (that time I went to Coventry two years ago), I observed this unnaturally-shaped mound from the station footbridge.

This is Mount Judd, a prominent artificial hill located just over a mile northwest of Nuneaton town centre. This prominent local landmark, which can be seen  for many miles around, is 158 metres tall. It was formed during the mid-20th century by the Judkins Quarry as a spoil tip, used as a dump for unusable material from their quarrying operations. The quarry eventually closed, and the mound became grassed over. Due to its strange conical shape, it has gained another rather unfortunate nickname... which I shan't tell - it's a bit embarrassing.

The hill is privately owned and fenced off, and anyone who dares trespass this site does so at their own risk, as the surrounding site was afterwards used as a landfill, in addition to large precipices. In a poll by the Daily Mirror in May 2018, Munt Judd was voted as the UK's best landmark, beating icons such as Stonehenge and the Angel of the North. How credible this is I don't really know...