![]() At the same time many of these great estates were being landscaped in the contemporary fashion and the landscape architects were able to crown their grand designs with some sort of eyecatcher for the mansion - a folly, in fact - 'to give a livelier consequence to the landscape'. However, many follies were built in the eighteenth century when great landowners, after their Grand Tour of Europe, returned to their estates with visions of putting up romantic ruins to satisfy a yearning for the past. Some are inspiring monuments, erected in the builder's lifetime to ensure that his memory is perpetuated, but others express a deep religious conviction. Some are on hilltops or in remote place, while others, almost unnoticed, stand beside the roadside. ![]() Whitelaw defines what a folly is and shows that these architectural curiosities are to be found all over England. ![]()
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