The landmark which paid tribute to Manchester Arena victims and Mark E. Smith - and the mystery surrounding its unusual name

It's the Cheshire landmark built to commemorate the Battle of Waterloo. And in more recent times, the White Nancy has been used to pay tribute to the victims of the Manchester Arena terror attack and The Fall frontman Mark E. Smith.

Sitting on top of Kerridge Hill, overlooking the village of Bollington, the White Nancy is a grade II listed structure. But despite the stunning panoramic views that its location provides, perhaps its main draw is the intrigue it creates in everyone that visits.

Many visitors are left wondering what it actually is, and why it was put there in the first place. White Nancy was built in 1817 by John Gaskell junior of North End Farm to commemorate Wellington’s victory at the Battle Of Waterloo. John Gaskell was a member of the Gaskell family who lived nearby at Ingersley Hall, CheshireLive reports.

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The oddly conical shaped structure originally had an entrance to a single room which was furnished with stone benches and a central round table, but the entrance is now blocked. There are several theories on why it is called White Nancy.

Local folklore has it that the landmark was named after the lead horse that had transported all materials for the building of White Nancy. But John Langdill, from Macclesfield Historical Society, has another explanation, which stems around the Kerridge being nicknamed Nancy.

He said: "For many years before the monument was erected the north end of Kerridge had been the site of an ordnance beacon. Chains of these beacons were erected and maintained by the Board of Ordnance and occupied prominent sites across the country which were