The Sugar Loaf, built by Mad Jack Fuller to win a bet that he could see the spire of Dallington Church from his house. #Brightling #EastSussex #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

König Friedrich Wilhelm II of Prussia built his English Folly on the Havel. #Pfaueninsel #Berlin #Germany #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Silly to build a clock tower on London Bridge. Gets in the way. Much better to remove the clock and ship it all to #Swanage #Dorset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Hard to find and even harder to comprehend. #SheepstorArches #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Let enough undergrowth creep and you'll soon forget there was ever a splendid eyecatcher to be seen. #RabyCastleEyecatcher #Staindrop #Durham #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Just another little folly tower, yet oddly memorable. #PittHouseTower #Chudleigh #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

A care home at Holymoorside had this wonderful tower but they didn't care for it, so they knocked it down. #Chesterfield #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Built by Robert Palk in memory of his great friend Stringer Lawrence, and restored since this photograph. #HaldonBelvedere #Dunchideock #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Find a rock with a big enough hole in it and you can make your own church. #Vouliagmeni #Greece #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Not much space for deer in the Hallgarth Deer House. #CoathamMundeville #Durham #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Cascade House on top of an artificial waterfall at Chatsworth. #Chatsworth #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

They built a bypass so as not to disturb Charborough Park Tower. #Charborough #Morden #Dorset #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Braddyll Mausoleum at Conishead, for Sarah Giles and John Cale. #Conishead #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Wooda Belvedere in Bideford suit you? #WoodaBelvedere #Bideford #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Put a bowling alley in a field in the middle of nowhere and you'll have to build a grandstand so people can watch. SwarkestoneStand #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

One for all you Swifties — this is the 'Welsh' castle where Taylor filmed her first video. #CastellGwyn #Triune #Tennessee #USA #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Henry VI Monument marks the precise spot where King Henry met a shepherd who rescued him from the Wars of the Roses. Amazing. #Muncaster #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Rushford Tower, a short tower with a long view. #Chagford #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The real Elephant & Castle, carved by stoneworker Mr Watson in his leisure time. #Peckforton #Cheshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Not a lighthouse, but a monument to Sir John Barrow, in case you forgot. #TheHoad #Ulverston #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Made in Berkshire to celebrate the 1746 battle of Culloden in Scotland. #CullodenPavilion #Purley #Berkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

“There's a pleasant hill. Let's build an arch on top!” #WoodfordArch #Saltram #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Air Well, designed to quench the thirsts of the local citoyens through condensation. It failed, at best providing a bucket of water a day. #LePuitsAérien #Trans-en-Provence #France #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Poet William Cowper sat in his alcove and drank in the scenery, and a lot more besides. #CowpersAlcove #WestonUnderwood #Buckinghamshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

It's traditional to build the castle, then the keep. Not here. There's no castle. #BulstrodePark #GerardsCross #Buckinghamshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

One of the most elegant obelisks in Britain. #Bicton #Devon #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Before building your hilltop castle it's always a good plan to check there's a water supply. #BladonCastle #NewtonSolney #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Elvaston's Moorish Temple. “If Queen Victoria comes, show her round, but admit no one else.” #Elvaston #Derbyshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

So good they built it twice. #Ceri #Powys #Wales #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Large parks really need a fully functional artificial volcano. #Stein #Wörlitz #Germany #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Grotto Cottage at #Highclere #Hampshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Oh, ha-ha. #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The mysterious Allt-yr-Esgair, or the Paragon Tower, at #Llansantffraed #BannauBrycheiniog #Wales #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

If you don't want to break the fourth wall just use three. #GrimstonGarth #Holderness #EastRiding #Yorkshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Temple of the Winds, inspired by the 2,000 year old Tower of the Winds in Athens, this time at #WestWycombe #Buckinghamshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Saxonbury Tower boasting its shiny new top. #Eridge #EastSussex #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Unsurprisingly the local mayor is a cat. #GooseCreekTower #Talkeetna #Alaska #USA #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Tweedledum & Tweedledee and their fat friend. #InverquhomeryDoocots #Longside #Grampian #Scotland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

When a folly garden looks as good as this how can you not fall in love? #Stourhead #Wiltshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Ostensibly a memorial to Nelson, Paxton's Tower was built to prove Sir Thomas Paxton hadn't run out of money after his disastrous election campaign. #Llanarthney #Wales #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Druridge Bay Sham Ruin was built as a ruined cottage in 1940 to disguise a WWII pill box. #Morpeth #Northumberland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Fiddleback Farm has a roof in the shape of a rustic fiddle. #Fiddleback #WestWoodside #Cumbria #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

A triumphal arch for a long-forgotten triumph. #Mereworth #Kent #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Castillo de Colomares is a monument to Christopher Columbus, built by Dr Martín Martín between 1987 and 1994. #Benalmádena #Andalusia #Spain #ForeignFollyFriday #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

No King John ever came near King John's Hunting Lodge, #Odiham #Hampshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Who would begrudge any hound his castellated tower? Milton Park Kennels #Peterborough #Huntingdonshire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Not a monument, but a folly with the honour of being painted by JMW Turner. #UppertonMonument #Petworth #WestSussex #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Garendon Park has not one but two unused arches. #Leicestershire #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

Charles Hamilton's Sham Abbey at Painshill Park #Surrey #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk

The Powis Gate at Aberdeen University now commemorates slavery. #Aberdeen #Scotland #FollyFellowship #Follies #Folly #follies.org.uk