Your Bike in front of a "Folly"

[Tizme]

Not sure if this is really a Folly, but far too grand to be "just" the [former] entrance to a farm:

At Redlynch, 'twixt Bruton and Wincanton (Somerset)

But this IS a Folly:

King Alfred’s Tower is a 160ft (49m) high folly, designed by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare II in 1772. It is believed to mark the site where King Alfred the Great rallied his troops in 878. The tower commemorates the accession of George III to the throne in 1760 and the end of the Seven Years War.
Part of Stourhead NT land.
Not the best of days to photo it!

 

[i hate hills]

My i say what an impressive looking mount that is ........

 

[biggs682]

My Ian May by the folly on spectacle lane , Moulton .

This what i can find about it : Gate arch. Probably mid C18. Regular coursed lias. Pointed arch with stepped gable over, flanked by tall circular turrets with castellations. Pair of iron gates in archway. Possibly erected as one of a range of similar follies on the Boughton Hall estate.

 

[biggs682]

Not just A folly but The Folly

 

[tyred]

I remember reading Agatha Christie's Dead Man's Folly many years ago and wondered what a folly actually was. Now I think I know!

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

Not a folly, but a lot of people seemingly think it is, hence my inclusion
Steeton Hall Gate-House
South Milford
I generally pass by, on the way home, after calling at 'Squires'
https://www.britishlistedbuildings....nd-walls-adjoining-south-milford#.WpFsoEx2vIU
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2736639






This, on the other hand is a folly
Not my bike, but lots of bikes
1992 World Cyclo-Cross Championships
Roundhay Park
Leeds
https://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101256171-the-castle-roundhay-ward#.WpFtTUx2vIU
http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3075667

Roger Hammond took the win there!!!
It's taken 'us' 25 years to get another CX world title, with Tom Pidcock, who........................... lives (parents do) in Roundhay!!

 

[Tizme]

Now I feel guilty, I was going to take a trip out to get a photo of Cranmore Tower today, but the cold and my hip still sore from yesterdays (abysmally short) ride made me lazy. Still, the good news is that I only have a maximum of 10 weeks to wait for my left hip to be replaced - balance the right one replaced two years ago! Two new hips before I reach 61, 4 years ago I was still qualifying "Good For Age" for the London Marathon!

 

[biggs682]

A local Folly

 

[biggs682]

The " Folly" cottage in Pavenham

 

[Illaveago]

Not sure if this is really a Folly, but far too grand to be "just" the [former] entrance to a farm:
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At Redlynch, 'twixt Bruton and Wincanton (Somerset)

But this IS a Folly:
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King Alfred’s Tower is a 160ft (49m) high folly, designed by Henry Flitcroft for Henry Hoare II in 1772. It is believed to mark the site where King Alfred the Great rallied his troops in 878. The tower commemorates the accession of George III to the throne in 1760 and the end of the Seven Years War.
Part of Stourhead NT land.
Not the best of days to photo it!

I think a Spitfire crashed into it during the war .
It is also a landmark which you can see all the way from Brinkworth on a clear day .

 

[simongt]

what a folly actually was.

Essentially, a folly is a piece of grand architecture, usually built in isolation, for no particular purpose other than either marking some event or simply built at the whim of an eccentric landowner. It's often this eccentricity which is the basis of their charm.

 

[woodbutcher]

Could be a foolish or even stupid act, especially the prefaced by the word "youthful" ......l can recall a few

 

[smokeysmoo]

The Dovecote Tower at RIVINGTON, known locally to all and sundry as the Pigeon Tower.

 

[roadrash]

@smokeysmoo ive always wanted to see inside that

 

[smokeysmoo]

@smokeysmoo ive always wanted to see inside that

You and me both marra