Having spent much of my 50 year long career working on various country estates in Derbyshire and Yorkshire, I became interested in landscape buildings, often neglected, forgotten or even lost in woodland plantations. The reason for them being built has often also been lost, adding to their mystery. Sometimes the romance of their original purpose is even exaggerated by a more ruinous condition and the addition of vegetation. Local legend may have attributed such places with fanciful stories that are less fascinating than the real facts for their existence.
As a Garden History tutor I had the opportunity to research the motives behind the building of follies and discovered that fact is often stranger than fiction.
Fabulous Follies is intended to be an expanding website. Initially I am publishing a collection of images with a brief text that I will correct and develop. The objects will be listed under the historic counties and the parish that they are in, together with a six figure grid reference number, and to do this I would appreciate help from you. All the images are mine unless I acknowledge otherwise.
[email protected]
I post a daily blog about landscape curiosities on Facebook if you want to follow Ray Blyth
As a Garden History tutor I had the opportunity to research the motives behind the building of follies and discovered that fact is often stranger than fiction.
Fabulous Follies is intended to be an expanding website. Initially I am publishing a collection of images with a brief text that I will correct and develop. The objects will be listed under the historic counties and the parish that they are in, together with a six figure grid reference number, and to do this I would appreciate help from you. All the images are mine unless I acknowledge otherwise.
[email protected]
I post a daily blog about landscape curiosities on Facebook if you want to follow Ray Blyth