象堡(Elephant and Castle)是倫敦市中心的一個主要交通路口之一,也是倫敦的一個地區名稱,在行政區劃上屬於南華克倫敦自治市。象堡這個名字來自於一個旅館[1]。
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Compare Simpson, Jacqueline. Elephant and Castle. Green Men & White Swans: The Folklore of British Pub Names. Random House. 2011: 90–92 [11 February 2015]. ISBN 9780099520177. (原始内容存档于2016-04-22). The most famous pub of this name has long been demolished, but the area of London where it once stood is still known as the Elephant. [...] In the Middle Ages the elephant was regularly linked with the 'castle' both in the written descriptions in Bestiaries and in visual art, e.g. in church carvings.