This statue of Mary Anning was revealed on 21 May 2022 by Professor Alice Roberts. The installation of the statue marked the culmination of a four year campaign by the Mary Anning Rocks group which was started by schoolgirl Evie Swire, then aged 11 and her mother, Anya Pearson.

Mary Anning was an English fossil collector, dealer, and palaeontologist who became known around the world for the discoveries she made in Jurassic marine fossil beds in the cliffs along the Jurassic coastline at Lyme Regis, Dorset