BURNLEY’S Singing Ringing Tree has been named one of the UK’s top landmarks.

Members of the public voting on social media placed the three-metre-tall wind-powered steel sculpture among the 21 landmarks that define Britain in the 21st century.

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Situated at Crown Point on moorland above the town, the sculpture was finished in 2006 as part of Mid Pennine Art’s Panopticons series of unique contemporary landmarks.

Creative director Nick Hunt said: “We are absolutely thrilled that our brilliant, pint-sized, low-cost landmark has been recognisedalongside all those familiar, major icons of modern Britain.”

After whittling down a lengthy list of nominated attractions and sights, judges selected their winners.

The tree’s pipes swirl to form the shape of a tree bent and blown by the wind, and produce an eerie, melodious hum as the constant wind on Crown Point drifts through them.

It was designed by award-winning architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu and placed at the site of a former re-diffusion transmission station, complete with a run-down brick building and unused telegraph lines.

The poll, carried out by The Independent and High Life, placed The Eden Project in Cornwall in first place, the Angel of the North in second, and Coventry Castle in third.

The others were London Eye, Millennium Bridge, St Paul’s Cathedral, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, De La Warr Pavilion, Turner Contemporary, Lincoln Cathedral, Selfridges, Chatsworth, Lovell Telescope, Singing Ringing Tree, Albert Dock, Blackpool Tower, Wales Millennium Centre, Edinburgh Castle, Visitor Centre at Giant’s Causeway.