Here are this year’s events – those at the top are organised by the Folly Fellowship, and those in the second block are events by other organizations that may be of interest.

If you wish to order multiple tickets, please read the help sheet here.

Wild West of Somerset (Now Full)

Date: 21 June 2025
All-day event
Location: Somerset
 The day will include:
Castle House, Bridgwater. Somerset’s ugliest folly, but an experimental marvel, recently restored at vast expense.
Fyne Court, with its two-tower folly and canal building, once home of Andrew Crosse, early experimenter with electricity who may have inspired Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.
Willett Tower, a prominent eyecatcher. Probably hard for people with mobility restrictions to access, but for the fit worth the exhilarating climb up the Brendon Hills.
Milverton Court: Meet talented shell artist Belinda Eade at her base for shell work, and see her finely decorated pool house and rustic grotto. Tea & cake served.
This trip is now full, but if you wish to be on a waiting list, contact jonathanholt3@gmail.com
 £10 for members, £12 for non-members.

Garden Party +

Date: 9 August 2025
Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM
Location: North Wales
2025’s Garden Party will take place at Portmeirion in North Wales. There will be three days of optional trips:

 

Friday 8th Aug:   Plas Brondanw  (Clough’s home  with great gardens and an excellent folly castle) and Nantclywd Hall (Clough redesigned the hosue and completely designed the formal garden area)



Options for Brondanw & Nantclwyd only


Saturday 9th Aug:   Portmeirion from 12pm -5pm with cake, Pimms etc



Options for Garden Party only:


Sunday 10th Aug:    Parc Glynllifon (Not Clough related but several follies in large grounds)

This will be a pay-as-you-go trip. Just pay the entrance fee of £6 (bookable in advance via their website https://parcglynllifon.cymru/). The site has a cafe.  Drop Patrick an email to let him know if you want to attend:  ptodd.ptcs@gmail.com

 

 

 

A visit to Cheshire and Staffordshire

Date: 19 September 2025
All-day event
Location: Cheshire and Staffordshire
Mow Cop, Biddulph Grange and Consall Hall Gardens, 
A Visit to Cheshire and Staffordshire 
We start at Mow Cop, a folly ruin with wide views over the Cheshire 
plain (steep climb). Then on to Biddulph Grange with its eclectic 
collection of folly gardens where lunch is available. In the afternoon 
we visit the gardens at Consall with a variety of follies made over 
the last 30 years, followed by tea. 
The cost for the day is £10 FF members, £12 non FF members (including tea 
but not lunch). You will need to produce your NT membership card at Biddulph. 
For non National Trust members there will be a reduced group entrance fee at 
Biddulph of £11.70 per person payable on the day. 
 
Further details from: Peter Godfrey: pfgodfrey@gmail.com 
0117 9087375 


Options


Talks and events by organizations other than the Folly Fellowship

Strawberry Hill & Pope’s Grotto tours (7 Sundays from 18th March to 19th October)

Date: 19 October 2025
Time: 12:00 AM - 12:00 AM

We are delighted to announce a new series of Sunday morning Guided Landscape Tours of Strawberry Hill Garden and Pope’s Grotto. These tours cover the garden’s restoration and history, its significance in the development of the more naturalistic landscape garden in England, and its position in the Thames Arcadian landscape .

 

The Gothic Revival house and garden, a short walk from Pope’s Grotto via Radnor Gardens, were created by Horace Walpole in the 18th century and have been open to visitors for over 250 years.

The tours also cover poet Alexander Pope and his connections with Twickenham. The Grotto is open to visitors on a limited number of days per year following an extensive programme of restoration and conservation works, which have revealed the original structure of the Grotto, along with evidence of water features referred to by Pope and 18th-century visitors.

Separately, on the same Sundays at 10 am, we’ve organised a one-hour opening of the Grotto only for those of you who were unable to get tickets for any of our Saturday Open Days.

Booking is essential. Tickets for the Landscape Tours cost £25 per adult (age 18+) and £10 for the 10 am Grotto openings. Children 17 and under go free. More information and booking at TicketSource.

We regret that due to the location of Pope’s Grotto, there is no disabled access. Please be aware that access to the Grotto is via stairs and that the Grotto floor is uneven. We request that visitors wear flat shoes.

For more information about Strawberry Hill House & Garden please visit the property’s website.