u/Active-Knowledge319

This is a Pump House & Clock Tower, which may have many other functions. #Heath&Reach #Bedfordshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Wellington Monument, a monument in Wales to an Irishman who won battles for the English in Spain, at Ciudad Rodrigo and Badajoz. #Aberystwyth #Ceredigion #Cymru #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Mr Whitley had the Ten Commandments engraved on Dartmoor to mark the defeat of the Revised Prayer Book in Parliament. #BucklandBeacon #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

A C18 sham castle built as a hunting lodge, incorporating existing boulders. #CarnBreaCastle #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The tower on Hermitage Hill was restored in 1990 with the addition of a fridge, a couple of chairs and two glasses. #ConisheadPriory #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Moreton Park Mallard is a brick replica by David Mach of Britain's most famous locomotive. #Darlington #CountyDurham #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Finsthwaite Spire baffles even us. Built around 1800 by whom and for what? #Finsthwaite #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Erected 1834 to the memory of Humphrey Millet Grylls. #GryllsGate #Helston #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Britannia Waives The Rules! This is officially a ship in the Royal Navy — His Majesty's Ship Drake, at #Devonport #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Too much architecture for its function. The Hydraulic Tower at Wapping Dock. #Liverpool #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The former Camera Obscura at Jersey Marine is now a Bridal Suite. #JerseyMarine #Glamorgan #Cymru #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Sir Peter Killigrew acquired a licence to make Smithwick village a market town, so optimistically he changed its name to Pennycomequick. King Charles II felt this was too brash, so changed it to Falmouth. #KilligrewMonument #Falmouth #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Precisely 350 miles from London, this is Scottish Clock Lodge and English Clock Lodge. The clocks are painted on. #Westruther #Borders #Scotland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

In the late C18 mining contractor Peter Allen hollowed fifteen rooms out of the cliff of Marsden Rock and created a house, now a pub, called ‘The Grotto’. #MarsdenGrotto #Durham #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Designed by Giacomo Leoni in 1735, the Octagon was later converted into a chapel and mausoleum for the Astors. #Cliveden #Buckinghamshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The splendid Prideaux Place Grotto lives alongside a Shell Grotto and a 1738 temple. #Padstow #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Built in 1835 by George Head Head of Rickerby House. #Stanwix #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

One of the greatest replicas of the 2,000 year old Temple of the Winds in Athens. #Shugborough #Staffordhire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The 1997 Sun Temple's dome is pinpricked to provide the effect of a celestial panoply by day. #ChesterLeStreet #Durham #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Riddle Cone isn't a puzzle; it commemorates the poet Henry Scot Riddell. #Teviothead #Roxburghshire #Scotland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk