Once there was a church between the two towers. #Mistley #Essex #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

After a lifetime designing pumping stations, architect Chadwell Mylne bowed out with a sham castle for the Water Board. #StokeNewingtonPumpingStation #GreenLanes #London #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Proof that Americans have long mastered the art of rubble. Thank you for your attention to this matter! #BancroftTower #Worcester #Massachusetts #USA #FollyFellowship #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Robin Hood's Well, designed by Sir John Vanbrugh in 1710. Nowhere near a well, nothing to do with Robin Hood. #Burghwallis #SouthYorkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Mr Bliss's Tweed Mill, grand rural industry in #ChippingNorton #Oxfordshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

If you don't want to be troubled by those horrid stables I'll screen them off for you. #Elswick #Lancashire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

In the 1770s John Yorke spent £300 building The Stoops, which quickly became better known as Yorke's Folly. #PateleyBridge #NorthYorkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Philosopher's Tower, built 1700 for the philosophic Earl of Shaftesbury. #WimborneStGiles #Dorset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Mrs Peters' Tower was built by Mr Peters to show how good his wife was to the poor. #Lympstone #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Temple of Apollo at Lednice-Valtice #Czechia #FollyFellowship #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Luttrell's Tower, a genuine smuggler's look-out. #Calshot #Hampshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Built as a menagerie, The Jungle at Eagle. #Lincolnshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Sutherland Obelisk — The Mannie (the Duke of Sutherland) wasn't loved in Shropshire either. #Lilleshall #Shropshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Mannie — the statue of the deeply unloved Duke of Sutherland on #BenBhraggie #Golspie #Scotland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Built 2009, the tallest English folly for 100 years. #LarmerTreeGardens #TollardRoyal #Wiltshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

A spa house for a failed spa. Sad. #Nottington #Dorset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

It used to be a decent restaurant. Now it's just a museum and you probably can't climb the tower any more. #ElCaprichoDeGaudi #Comillas #Spain #FollyFellowship #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

All the necessary folly elements: round arched entrance, cruciform arrowslits, pointed windows and an oeil de boeuf. #ModitonhamDovecote #Bude #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Wonderful landlocked location for a monument to Nelson. #BirchenEdge #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

A beautiful C19 castle, but they forgot the bedrooms. #CastellCoch #Tongwynlais #Cymru #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

More a shell house than a grotto, like a sliced Smartie tube. #Tapeley #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Originally John Foulston's Egyptian Library of 1823, now the Odd Fellows Hall. #Devonport #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The spire of St Bride's Church in the City of London gracefully retired to Remenham in 1837. #Remenham #Berkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Yes of course it's a boiler house! What else would it be? #Heizhaus #RudolfSteiner #Dornach #Switzerland #FollyFellowship #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Rockhall Cottage, now called the Don Whillans Hut, built into the rock at The Roaches. #Leek #Staffordshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Brilliant idea: Powderham Belvedere has a retractable flagpole to obviate high winds. #Powderham #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Either a memorial to the Portquin shipwreck or a place for Samuel Symons to drink himself to death. #DoydenPointTower #Portquin #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Granville Monument in Stratton commemorates a 1643 Civil War battle. #GranvilleMonument #Stratton #Cornwall #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Queen Anne's Summerhouse, built 166 years after she died. #OldWarden #Bedfordshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Happy Saint Valentine's Day! The Taj Mahal of Wales: built to relieve a mind sincerely afflicted by the loss of a most excellent wife. #ClythaCastle #Llangattock #Cymru #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk