The Hawking Tower of Boughton Park Northamptonshire Built Sometime Betreen {1739a1756} The Tower Is a Grade11 Listed Structure. The follies of Boughton Park are the largest of such structures in Northamptonshire UK.
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The Hawking Tower, Boughton park Northamptonshire Built some time Between 1739 and 1756 The Tower a Grade11 Listed Structure. The Follies of Boughton park are the Largest collection of such structures in Northamptonshire.
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The Hawking Tower, Boughton park Northamptonshire Built some time Between 1739 and 1756 The Tower a Grade11 Listed Structure. The Follies of Boughton park are the Largest collection of such structures in Northamptonshire.
NORTHAMPTONSHIRE : HOLDENBY HOUSE - these two base-court archways dating to 1583 survive from the original mansion, long since demolished. ref: 01.5/8/5(3)
The Grotto at Boughton park Northamptonshire Probably Dates from 1770s, Located in a spinney. The Follies of Boughton park are the Largest collection of such structures in Northamptonshire UK.
Boughton Pumping Station, an Edwardian building built by the Nottingham Water Company between 1905 and 1907. An overly ornate building given it is located in the woods on the edge of Sherwood Forest in North Nottinghamshire. New technology made the pumping station redundant in the 1970's and it lay empty for over twenty years. The building was reopened in 1998 (after extensive works had been carried out) as a business centre with conference facilities.
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The Grotto at Boughton park Northamptonshire Probably Dates from 1770s, Located in a spinney. The Follies of Boughton park are the Largest collection of such structures in Northamptonshire UK.
Folly Gates, Brookmans Park, N Mimms, Hertfordshire. The arch now stands at the junction of Swanley Bar and Hawkshead Road at the southern end of Brookmans Park/Gobions Estate. Even at close range large, well established, trees make it only visible from almost directly in front. There is no access into the estate and many more trees mean the arch is no longer visible from the village.
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The Ruined Arch was designed as a mock Roman ruin by Sir William Chambers. It was built in 1759-60. Such follies were very fashionable during the 18th century as ornamental garden features. This folly however also served a practical purpose in carrying a carriage-way across what is now Kew Road. The arch has deteriorated over the centuries and is now more ruinous than when it was built.
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The Ruined Arch was designed as a mock Roman ruin by Sir William Chambers. It was built in 1759-60. Such follies were very fashionable during the 18th century as ornamental garden features. This folly however also served a practical purpose in carrying a carriage-way across what is now Kew Road. The arch has deteriorated over the centuries and is now more ruinous than when it was built.
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Built in the early 17th century, Lyveden New Bield is not a ruin, but an unfinished project. Sir Thomas Tresham died in 1605 before the house was completed and, unpaid, the builders simply downed tools and left. There is evidence of an ornate garden design with terraces and spiral pather hillocks. Today the building is in the care of the National trust.
Folly Follies, Northamptonshire, Sir Thomas Tresham summer house roofless roman catholic
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Built in the early 17th century, Lyveden New Bield is not a ruin, but an unfinished project. Sir Thomas Tresham died in 1605 before the house was completed and, unpaid, the builders simply downed tools and left. There is evidence of an ornate garden design with terraces and spiral pather hillocks. Today the building is in the care of the National trust.
MOW COP is a folly built by local squire Randle Wilbraham in 1754 on the crest of an 1,100 ft. hill astride the Cheshire/Staffordshire border near Biddulph. It gives wide views over the Cheshire Plain. ref : 1008054.021 (01. 5/12/21)
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Paxton's Tower stands overlooking the Towy Valley near the village of Llanarthne,Carmarthenshire. It is also known as "Nelson's Folly" because stories have it that William Paxton built it as a tribute to Lord Nelson.
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Temple Bar, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. Temple Bar was moved from the junction of Fleet Street and Strand, London, in 1878 and moved again, to Paternoster Square, London, in 2004. Seen here in an uncredited photo on unused, undated, postcard.Best guess on date, 1910s.
Temple Bar, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire. Temple Bar was moved from the junction of Fleet Street and Strand, London, in 1878 and moved again, to Paternoster Square, London in 2004. Seen here in an uncredited photo from a 1937 book.
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Red brick folly arch on the road between Brookmans Park and Potters Bar, Hertfordshire. It was built in about 1740, and was originally one of the entrances to the Gobions estate.
Temple Bar, Waltham Cross, Herts, 1904. Temple Bar was moved from the junction of Fleet Street and Strand, London, in 1878 and moved again, to Paternoster Square, London in 2004. Seen here in an uncredited photo on a 1904 postcard.
UTAH - Arches National Park : Landscape Arch stands in the Devil's Garden area towards the northern end of the Park and measures a full 306 feet from base to base - the largest span of any of the more than 2000 arches in the Park. ref: (42.4/5/13(01)
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