Landmarks
Some heritage buildings and landmarks in Batu Gajah that are famous throughout Perak and even the whole country are:
- Kellie's Castle (an old unfinished castle built by a Scottish rubber tycoon)
- An old tin mining dredge (resembling a large 'boat')
- Sultan Yussuf School or SMK Sultan Yussuf, the oldest school in Batu Gajah, established in 1907
- Batu Gajah Prison, the second oldest in Malaysia after the Taiping Prison.
- Batu Gajah old courthouse established in 1892
- St. Joseph Catholic Church
- Kinta Golf Course
- Batu Gajah Hospital
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Coordinates: 4°28′N 101°03′E / 4.467°N 101.05°E / 4.467; 101.05
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Famous quotes containing the word landmarks:
“The lives of happy people are dense with their own doingscrowded, active, thick.... But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrows horizons are vague and its demands are few.”
—Larry McMurtry (b. 1936)
“Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.”
—Willa Cather (18731947)