
Great Knollys Street · Reading
Find the Cow
Track down Reading's most unexpected piece of public art: a mural of a cow.
- ⏱ 20 min
- 💷 £0
- 🥾 Easy
Tucked onto a wall on Great Knollys Street is a large, cheerful, slightly surreal painted cow — one of Reading's odder pieces of street art, and easy to miss unless you're looking for it. No one seems entirely sure why it's there. That's kind of the point.
What you’ll do
- 1Head west
- 2Find the cow
- 3Prove it
Save it, send it to friends or plan your day around it. Free on the web, no download.
Photo: Andrew Smith, CC BY-SA 2.0
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