Another Place is a sculpture by the British artist Antony Gormley. It has 100 cast iron figures, all cast from the artist's own body, spread across a 2-mile (3.2-kilometer) stretch of Crosby Beach in Merseyside. Each figure is 6 feet 2 inches (189 centimeters) tall and weighs about 1,430 pounds (650 kilograms). They stand facing the sea.
The figures were cast at the Hargreaves Foundry in Halifax and the Siddons Foundry in West Bromwich. Gormley showed the work first in Cuxhaven, Germany, in 1997, then in Stavanger, Norway, and De Panne, Belgium. The display at Crosby began on July 1, 2005.
The tide covers and reveals the figures, and the seawater corrodes them. In October 2006 the local council refused permission for them to stay. A company, Another Place Ltd, campaigned and appealed, and on March 7, 2007 Sefton Council granted permission for permanent installation.
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