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	Sway Tower, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com
		Also like many folly builders he was said to have provided work for the poor and unemployed of the area, the difference with Peterson was that it seems he was genuine in his concern, whereas some others were no doubt motivated by the availability of cheap labour.
		Coupled with the fact that the tower sits on nine foot foundations, it means a terrific amount of work was put into its construction over an approximate five year period, with the cost reputed to have been £30,000, a considerable fortune at the time.
		The tower was sold in the early seventies for £2,700 to a Mr Atlas, and after being left to the elements for a while, it was not in the best of conditions when the 1987 hurricane occurred that the South of England suffered so badly from.
	www.follytowers.com /swaytxt.html (1190 words)

	Folly - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Folly is also a synonym for foolishness; see stupidity.
		In architecture, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be something other than what it is.
		Follies are usually found in parks or large grounds of houses and stately homes; they may sometimes have been deliberately built to look partially in ruins.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Folly (189 words)

	The Folly Tower - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Folly Tower is a folly at Pontypool, Torfaen, South Wales (Grid ref: SO 29525 02495).
		In 1935 nearly 20,000 people gathered at the Folly Tower to celebrate the Silver Jubilee of King George V with a bonfire.
		Eventually, in the 1980s a group called Campaign for the Reconstruction of the Folly Tower achieved sufficient backing that the £60,000 required was raised to rebuild the Folly Tower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/The_Folly_Tower (257 words)

	Horton Tower Dorset, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com
		Horton folly tower is hard to miss sat high on a hill, and the 140 foot tall structure will be seen on the horizon at some stage, irrespective of what direction you approach it from.
		Until recently the tower was in a very sad state of repair having been neglected by the landowners.
		It was possible to stand inside the tower and look up the vast empty interior at the sky, as all the wooden floors had long gone.
	www.follytowers.com /hortontxt.html (448 words)

	Folly
		Folly In architecture, a folly is an extravagant, useless, or fanciful building, or a building that appears to be someth...
		Folly Beach, South Carolina Folly Beach is a city located in 2000 census, the city had a total population of 2,116.
		The Praise of Folly The Praise of the Folly (Reformation.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/folly.html (89 words)

	Broadway Tower - LearnThis.Info Enclyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Broadway Tower is a folly located at the highest point (1,024 feet above sea level) of the Cotswolds, England.
		The hill upon which the tower was built was a "beacon" hill, upon which beacons were lit upon special occasions.
		Over the years, the tower was home to the printing press of Sir Thomas Phillips, and served as a country retreat for artists including William Morris.
	encyclopedia.learnthis.info /b/br/broadway_tower.html (148 words)

	Broadway Tower, near Broadway in Worcestershire (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It was built for the 6th Earl of Coventry as a folly on his Springhill Estate, and was completed in 1799.
		The Tower is in the shape of a castle.
		Close to Broadway Tower is a memorial to the crew of 5 of a Royal Air Force Whitley Bomber, killed when it crashed here during an operational training flight on June 2nd 1943.
	www.odd-stuff.info /follies/broadway.htm (195 words)

	Tower Clocks Gallery
		These huge, costly clocks, usually placed in towers or turrets for maximum audibility and/or visibility, spread through Europe throughout the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries, fostering in people a greater sense of temporal awareness.
		By the mid 19th century, tower clocks were being mass-produced in the US and installed in thousands of towns throughout the country, in courthouses, churches, city halls, schools, and other private and public buildings.
		Although the entire clock, the tower, and even the surrounding precincts are variously called Big Ben, the name technically refers only to the huge 13.5-ton bell that sounds the hours.
	www.nawcc.org /museum/nwcm/galleries/tower/tower.htm (728 words)

	G L Saint Folly Tower Pontypool, historical and Reminiscences of general interest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Legend dictates that the Folly originated as a Roman Watch Tower, and an article contained in the `Free Press of Monmouthshire' dated 22nd April 1865, described "an elevated spot where a Tower (formerly a Roman watch-tower) was many years since rebuilt as an observatory and which is popularly known as `The Folly'".
		By the late 1930's the Tower being open to the elements appeared to be in a poor state of repair.
		The Folly Tower and the Shell Grotto is open Bank holiday Monday the 5th May and every Saturday, Sunday and Bank holidays between 24th May and the 14th of September 2.00 p.m.
	freespace.virgin.net /gl.saint/pontypool/History.html (2002 words)

	Telegraph \| Property \| Under the spell of the Tower House
		The octagonal 16th-century drawing-room of The Tower House in Alwyne Villas has been witness to many an illustrious character - from Thomas Cromwell, who was given the property in Canonbury, north London, as a summer house by Henry VIII after the Dissolution of the Monasteries, to John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland, and Sir Francis Bacon.
		Higgledy-piggledy: the Tower House, Canonbury N1 "Cromwell and Dudley were executed at the time they owned the house," says the present owner, the musical writer and television and film critic Christopher Tookey.
		The tower folly, which was built by Prior Bolton in 1526, was originally castellated, but an extra octagonal room was added to the top and the house extended in the 1850s.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /property/main.jhtml?xml=/property/2003/10/15/ptow15.xml&sSheet=/property/2003/10/15/ixpmain01.html (743 words)

	Touring Coquetdale on Britannia: Whitton Tower
		This 60ft high, 46 by 33ft rectangular pele tower is one of the best preserved in the whole of Northumberland.
		The vicars were safely protected in their fine tower for the next five hundred years.
		Whitton Tower has been repaired and restored over the years by a number of its ecclesiastical residents - notably after becoming ruinous in the 1670s - and was considerably extended by Dr. Thomas Sharp in the 18th century.
	www.britannia.com /tours/coquetdale/whitton.html (219 words)

	ARCH-470 Computer Applications in Architecture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This modular folly will probably sit in a landscaped park (see assignment 2b), but could possibly set in any number of sites (see project 3) because the tower/pavilion is portable.
		Since the folly will be placed in a park-like setting, the clients request that the display objects housed within the tower/pavilion have some visibility from the surrounding park site, therefore at least one (1) side of each level must be "open" to the surrounding park.
		The folly must have four levels or sections, each space is dedicated to a specific set of formZ tools.
	acrc.umd.edu /old/ACRC/Classes/Arch470/Assignments/Proj2a.html (403 words)

	Charborough Tower, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The tower is situated in the Charborough estate, this being recognized by the long 3 mile brick wall enclosing it alongside the A31.
		The tower - because it is easier to see on the horizon from further away - will be seen rising out of the trees that surround it as you approach from Dorchester.
		It is quite an ornate octagonal tower with the external appearance of having five floors to it, with - it is said, a view of 4 counties from just the one single viewing room that the tower actually has.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /follies/chartxt.html (571 words)

	Alfred's Tower Stourhead, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alfred's Tower Stourhead, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com
		This folly tower is part of the estate of Stourhead Gardens, established and owned from 1715 to 1947 by the Hoare family.
		Headley and Meulenkamp state in their book 'Follies grottoes and garden buildings', that when the collapse from the masonry bee damage occurred, people were actually on the top at the time and had to make their way down the spiral staircase past a gaping hole.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /follies/alfredtxt.html (492 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - In praise of folly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Even by the standards of follies, the monument near Yeovil, Somerset, known as Jack the Treacle Eater, is a ridiculous construction.
		The Sussex village of Brightling is home to a series of eccentric follies he had built, including an obelisk, tower and an Egyptian-style pyramid, in which he asked to be buried sitting up.
		Built by the 14th Lord Berners, who had a harpsichord built into his car, this brick tower in Faringdon, Oxfordshire, was opened in 1935 to fireworks and the release of hundreds of red, white and blue painted doves.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=422042005 (1128 words)

	Faringdon Tourism & Transport
		In May 1982 it was restored and reopened by Lord Berners's heir, Robert Heber Percy, who gave the tower and four acres with its shrouding pines for the benefit of the people of Faringdon and the surrounding district.
		The Folly Tower Trust is responsible for upkeep of the site and tower, with the voluntary help of Friends of the Folly.
		The tower itself is open to the public - for a small fee - 11 am to 5 pm on Easter Sunday on the first Sunday in each month and on Bank Holidays, until October.
	www.faringdon.org /ttfolly.htm (416 words)

	Wainhouse's Tower, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However before the tower was finished Mr Wainhouse sold his dye factory, and the new owner did not want the tower included in the purchase, due to the high cost of finishing the construction.
		The tower was in fact some distance from the factory, the smoke getting to it via an underground tunnel, which added to the cost.
		Mr Wainhouse promptly decided to convert the tower to an astronomical observatory, and in 1875 the tower was finally finished, consisting of a elegant octagonal column, with the most ornate top you will find on any folly tower.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /follies/wainhouse.html (323 words)

	Wainhouse Tower 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Of the promise to cease complaints and suspend the summons while the chimney was being erected; the continual persecution in spite of this undertaking that led Mr.
		It was advertised in 1887 as an attraction: "Octagon Tower.
		But it was repaired, and the Tower was there at the threat of war to serve as an observation post; is there to play its part as an illuminated adornment on great occasions, and remains a curious but unique feature of Halifax for all who see to wonder at.
	www.geocities.com /cfhsweb/scriv109/Scriv10905.htm (439 words)

	SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679) - Online Information article about SHARP, JAMES (1618-1679)
		As early as March 1651 he was recognized as one of the leading men of the party, and was taken prisoner by Cromwell's forces.
		For eight months he was kept in the Tower of London, and liberated on parole.
		In 1665 he was again in London, where, through his own folly and mendacity, he suffered a complete humiliation at the hands of Lauderdale, well described by the historian Burnet.
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /SCY_SHA/SHARP_JAMES_1618_1679_.html (1453 words)

	Faringdon Folly Tower
		It is the last folly to be built in England.
		Friends of the Folly are a local group who support the Folly Trust, now owners of the Tower.
		As part of a bigger project to improve the Folly Tower experience, this website will be developed to include much more detailed history, information and photographs.
	www.faringdonfolly.org.uk (328 words)

	Wainhouse's Tower
		The tower was finally completed in 1875 by the architect Richard Swarbrick Dugdale at a total cost of £14,000, and in such an elaborate style that not even a pocket telescope could have been fitted in between the orgy of finials, pillars, buttresses and balustrades.
		Wainhouse's Tower is naturally linked with its owner's feud with Sir Harry Edwards, a parvenu industrialist, Freemason and Justice of the Peace.
		From 1876 till he died a flood of pamphlets was penned by Wainhouse, not resulting in the anticipated responses from Edwards as the JP seems to have been a weak correspondent.
	www.heritage.co.uk /follies/ffwy09.html (688 words)

	Glossary: FOLLY
		Follies could therefore be nonsense buildings - with rooms or staircases that might lead nowhere, or be built already as ruins.
		A grotto is a further type of folly.
		Follies often followed the fashion of the day - 'Chinese' and 'Egyptian' forms being built in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries - though most northeast examples are of the Gothick type.
	www.keystothepast.info /durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PGlossary?readform&GLOSSARY=Folly (340 words)

	McCaig's Folly Tower, Oban Argyll, follies and folly towers at follytowers.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Often when looking for a folly, you see your objective from a distance but encounter problems finding it when nearer, especially if it is a tower in woodland.
		His interest was of Roman and Greek architecture and having travelled widely in Italy he built his own 'copy' of the Colosseum, although the main difference in his structure is that it is round instead of the oval shape of the roman original.
		The plan was for a museum to be housed in the structure along with a central tower, and for statues of himself and his family to be erected in the windows (some sources say on the parapet) overlooking the city, but McCaig`s death saw the end of the project.
	www.follies.btinternet.co.uk /argyll.html (358 words)

	FOLLIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The impetus for Irish landowners to build seemingly eccentric structures, or follies, was received from 18th-century England, particularly in the Romantic period during which the landscape was being artistically molded (by those who could afford to be romantic) under a naturalist ideology that also influenced literature and painting (Howley 1993:4).
		The tower is made of roughly masoned stonework and stands about 10 meters high and 12 meters wide (I lacked a measuring tape, so I judged these dimensions by eye).
		Fleming built his folly in imitation of this earlier Irish tower house and the puzzle of whether or not it was purposely conceived as a ruin is unlikely to be solved.
	www.shef.ac.uk /assem/2/2tarzia1.html (775 words)

	Follies in the English Landscape
		Although most of the buildings we now call follies are a part of English garden and landscape design, a folly need not be part of a garden.
		There are too many tower follies to mention them all, but notable towers were built at Farringdon (Oxon), Leith Hill Tower (Surrey), and Wainhouse's Folly (Halifax).
		The passion for extravagant follies dwindled as the 18th century waned, but it can never be said that it died out entirely.
	www.britainexpress.com /History/follies.htm (691 words)

	Isle of Man Guide - PEEL, Corrin's Tower
		The site was one of his favourite places and there next to the tower in a small outlined graveyard he laid to rest his wife and two children.
		The windows on the east side of the tower, first, second and third floors are blocked up, due to complains that ships were mistaking the tower light for the Peel water break light.
		The Tower itself is locked to the public at this time, but viewing the outside of the building and nearby graves are still worth the walk.
	www.iomguide.com /corrinstower.php (415 words)

	BBC - Birmingham Features - The Lord Of The Rings - Perrott's Folly
		The tower or folly is not as many believe 100 feet tall.
		Refreshments may be on the menu in houses on Waterworks Road in Edgbaston as tourists visit Perrott’s Folly, which inspired JRR Tolkien to pen The Two Towers, the second book of the epic trilogy.
		Although, there was a reason to be scared this Halloween as the Folly was illuminated and filled with ghoulish sights: "We lit every room and people dressed up as witches, it got people out their houses with children asking their parents if they could come over and see the Folly," Chris explains.
	www.bbc.co.uk /birmingham/features/2002/11/tolkien/perrotts-folly-information.shtml (600 words)

	Touring Coquetdale on Britannia: Longhorsley Tower
		Probably built for the Horsley family in the second half of the 16th century, it is quite a late example of its type.
		The tower passed to the Riddells of Swinburne & Felton in later centuries and, like Whitton, was once the residence of the rector of the adjoining church.
		The tower is privately owned and not open to the public, but can be viewed from the road.
	www.britannia.com /tours/coquetdale/longhorsley.html (116 words)

	Freston Tower
		It is arguably the oldest folly in the country.
		In 1999 the Tower, formerly in private hands, was handed over to the Landmark Trust.
		Sometimes the Tower crops up in the local paper or on the telly, so there's the odd bit of news.
	www.freston.net /tower (313 words)

	Touring Coquetdale on Britannia: Sharp's Folly
		This strange tower was built behind the village of Whitton in about 1720, when Dr. Thomas Sharp, son of the Archbishop of York, arrived as the Rector of nearby Rothbury.
		Sharp lived at the Pele Tower in Whitton and, being something of an eccentric as well as a man of letters, he came up with the erection of a folly as an early job-creation scheme for the locals.
		The folly is privately owned but is easily viewable from the adjoining footpath, or from further away.
	www.britannia.com /tours/coquetdale/folly.html (118 words)

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