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The Maiwand Lion is a sculpture and war memorial in Forbury Gardens. The statue was named after the Battle of Maiwand and was erected in 1884 to commemorate the deaths of 329 men from the 66th Berkshire Regiment during the campaign in the Second Anglo-Afghan war in Afghanistan between 1878 and 1880.
Reading Museum is based in the Victorian Town Hall in the centre of Reading. It has wonderful archaeology from Roman Silchester and Reading Abbey, the famous Victorian copy of the Bayeux Tapestry and a natural history of Reading – and much more!