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Will the Real Lamppost Please Stand Up

An Instagram post from a friend put me over the edge. In his post, my friend said that someone told him the lamppost pictured above, in Green Park, London, was THE lamppost that inspired C. S. Lewis to put a lamppost in his Narnia stories, beginning with The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. The reason this claim pushed me over the edge is because I have heard it so many times before... On a research trip to Belfast, I was told by one of the staff at Campbell College, where Lewis attended school for one semester, that the lamppost pictured below, on the grounds of the college, was THE lamppost that inspired the one in Narnia. Then on that same trip in 2015, when a friend and I arrived in Great Malvern, England (another town where Lewis went to school) we read that the lamppost pictured below was THE lamppost that inspired Lewis... By the way, if you are looking for THE lamppost in Great Malvern, it is just outside a side door to the Priory. T