Description:The statue stands just inside the grounds by the Holloway Lodge entrance to Tamworth Castle. The Ethelfleda Monument, of Ethelfleda and her nephew Athelstan, was built for Tamworth's Millenary Celebrations of 1913. The Millenary marked the 1000th anniversary of when Ethelfleda, the Lady of the Mercians, freed Tamworth from the Danes and fortified the town.
Ethelfleda was the eldest daughter of Alfred the Great and became known as the Lady of the Mercians after the death of her husband, Aethelred, in 910. Ethelfleda became the ruler of the Mercians, planning and leading expeditions personally, against the Vikings.
The man on the left is the stone mason Henry Mitchell.