Meridian Owl at Grizedale

This sculpture in Grizedale Forest is called "Meridian Owl". It revealed a misunderstanding I've had about the word "meridian". I'd thought that the Greenwich Meridian was the only meridian. In fact, any north/south line of longitude that passes from pole to pole is a meridian. So you are always on a meridian. The Greenwich Meridian just happens to be the one chosen by humans to be the zero.