Peter Pan is standing on a tree trunk watched by animals of the English countryside and delicate winged fairies.  He stands in a leafy glade about half way along the west bank of the Long Water.  This site has a special importance for Peter Pan and was chosen for the statue by J M Barrie, the author who created him.
Barrie took a series of photographs in 1906 of the six-year-old Michael Llewelyn Davies wearing a special Peter Pan costume.  This was Barrie 's ideal vision of Peter Pan that he planned to give to a prospective sculptor. Six years later, in 1912, Barrie paid Sir George Frampton to create the statue and on May 1st that year it appeared, as if by magic.