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Home / Arts / Architecture / History / Building Types / Follies / United Kingdom
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- A Scottish Pineapple - J.K. Gillon's illustrated description and discussion of the inspiration for the Dunmore Pineapple garden folly, built in 1761.
gillonj.tripod.com/ascottishpineapple
- Beckford's Tower and Museum - Beckford's Tower was built in 1827 for the accomplished but eccentric William Beckford. The Bath Preservation Trust provides photographs, a brief history and description, and visitor information.
www.bath-preservation-trust.org.uk/museums/beckford/index.html
- Folly Towers and Monuments - Eccentric buildings built by eccentrics in Dorset, Hants, Oxfordshire, Somerset and Wiltshire. A photograph and description of each building by Phil Tuck.
www.follies.btinternet.co.uk
- Freston Tower - An illustrated introduction by Ed Broom to this six-story 16th-century building overlooking the River Orwell in Suffolk, with extracts about it from various guidebooks.
www.freston.net/tower
- Hawkstone Park - Follies and Gardens - The official site for this 18th-century garden with grottos and architectural oddities created in Shropshire, England, by Sir Rowland Hill. Photographs, brief history and visitor information.
www.hawkstone.co.uk/follies.htm
- Painswick Rococo Garden - Official site for this 18th-century garden dotted with follies. Photographs, description and visitor information.
www.beta.co.uk/painswick
- Virtual Portmeirion - Online tours, hundreds of photographs and information about Portmeirion, North Wales, a picturesque village created by Sir Clough Williams-Ellis, including architectural follies.
www.virtualportmeirion.com
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