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Posh Sheds

A range of expensive but very well made sheds.

Suffolk Sentry

Based in Suffok, they make small wooden sentry box style buildings.

Acanthus Cast Stone

Maufacturers of cast stone architectural pieces, temples and custom stone work.

Finials

An enormous range of roof finials and decorative chimney pots

Triton Stone

A range of temples, fountains, animals and architectural stone items.

Katherine Lloyd

Shell artist making modern shellworks and restoring older work.

Linda Fenwick, Shell Design

A shell artist making and designing shell panels and interior decoration for houses and garden buildings.

Blott Kerr-Wilson, Shell Houses

Renowed shell artist with a wide range of restoration projects and modern installations in shells to her name.

Olicana Mosaics

David James, creator of bespoke mosaics and garden features in stone and shells.

Chapter House Design

A variety of gothic stone elements to make a garden folly or ruin. Includes a complete ‘Gothic Garden Folly Abbey Entrance Kit’!

Good Directions – Suppliers of clocks, cupolas, domes, weathervanes etc in GRP

Brampton Willows

Company from Suffolk specializing in structures made from willow – some amazing shapes and ideal for those who want something than will blend into the planting more than stone or concrete.

Haddonstone

A huge range of architectural components in stone -pillars, window frames, garden ornaments and complete follies built to your specification.

Chilstone

Reconstituted stone garden ornaments such as urns, birdbaths and statues as well as complete temples and all sorts of architectural components.

Redwoodstone

Specialists in Garden Follies, both off the shelf and bespoke.

British Ironworks

A comprehensive range of metal gazebos and temples, as well as metal animals and sculptures.

Castle Magic

US based builders of complete castles, plus cottages and towers

Follies Trust
Our sister organization in Ireland
Temple Trust
A charity whose our core activity has involved the rescue and preservation of our architectural heritage existing in the form of historic garden buildings and their settings.
Public Monuments and Sculpture Association
The PMSA aims to heighten public appreciation of Britain’s public sculpture, and to contribute to its preservation, protection and promotion.
De DonderbergGroep
The Thunder Mountain Group – based in the Netherlands this group models itself on the Folly Fellowship
The Gardens Trust
Assists in the protection, conservation, restoration or creation of garden land in the United Kingdom for the education and enjoyment of the public.
English Heritage
English Heritage exists to protect and promote England’s spectacular historic environment and ensure that its past is researched and understood.
The National Trust
The National Trust works to preserve and protect the coastline, countryside and buildings of England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The National Trust for Scotland
A conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland’s natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to enjoy.
Cadw (Welsh Heritage)
Cadw is the Welsh Assembly Government’s historic environment division. Its aim is to promote the conservation and appreciation of Wales’s historic environment.
SAVE
SAVE is an influential conservation group which places a special emphasis on the possibilities of alternative uses for historic buildings.
Landmark Trust
The Landmark Trust is a building preservation charity, established to rescue historic and architecturally interesting buildings and their surroundings from neglect and to give them new life by letting them for holidays.
Historic Gardens Review
The Historic Gardens Foundation is an organisation set up to link everyone concerned with the preservation, restoration and management of historic parks and gardens.
Mausolea and Monuments Trust
The Mausolea and Monuments Trust is a charitable trust for the protection and preservation for the public of mausolea and sepulchral monuments situated within the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland.
Subterranea Brittannica
Formed in 1974, Subterranea Britannica is a society devoted the the study and investigation of man-made and man-used underground places.
British Water Tower Appreciation Society
BWTAS promotes the appreciation of water towers for their artistic, cultural, architectural, historical, social and engineering significance.
Pulham Legacy
Details the surviving examples of Pulhamite, the made made rock used for many grottoes and rock features.
Shell House talks
The site of Gerald & Margaret Hull who give talks on Grottoes and Shell houses
Windmills of the UK
A site devoted to windmills, but featuring a page on ‘Mock Mills’ never intended to grind corn
Baths and Wash Houses Historical Archive
The archive is about people and the buildings, the Swimming Baths, the Public Wash Baths, the Public Wash Houses, the Public Laundries, the Turkish Baths, the Russian Baths, the Leisure Pools, the Open Air Baths, the Lidos and everything that went with them

Brightling Park, Sussex
Mad Jack Fuller’s Follies
Bruno Weber Park
A 20th century park full of bizarre creatures, figures and structures. The site is in German.
Campanopolis, Argentina
A complete folly town.
Carshalton Water Tower, Surrey
A unique tower containing an orangery, saloon and cold plunge bath
Dewstow Hidden Gardens, Wales
Formerly buried, these fantastic Pulhamite rock gardesn were rediscovered in 2000.
Faringdon Tower
One of the last prospect towers to be built in 1935
Flounder’s Folly
A restored, and occasionally open, prospect tower in Shropshire
Foel Ortho
The follies and accommodation at Foel Ortho, in Mid-Wales
Forbidden Corner
A unique labyrinth of tunnels, chambers, follies and surprises created in a four acre garden in the heart of the Yorkshire Dales.
Gwyrch Castle Preservation Trust
Founded in 2001 to raise awareness for the plight of Gwrych and also to find possible solutions for the conservation and preservation of the site
Halswell Park Trust
Setup to restore and maintain the follies and garden features of the Halswell Park estate.
Hawkstone Park
Folly group in Shropshire
Larchill Arcadian Garden
Animal based follies in Ireland
Massey’s Folly
Victorian decorated building in Hampshire
Plantation garden
Unusual Victorian sunken garden in Norwich featuring an Italianate terrace and Gothic fountain
Rectory Garden Centre
Kevin Duffy’s unique Tudor Village near Wigan
Strawberry Hill
The original ‘gothick’ villa that started the trend
Westonbury Mill Water Gardens
Modern Garden in Herefordshire with unique new water powered follies

Fabulous Follies
A list of follies throughout England, Scotland and Wales
Flickr picture groups
There are lots of photos here -those I’ve found that relate to follies are: Follies, Garden Follies, Landmark Trust, Lodges, Gatehouses and Tollhouses, Models of Landmark Trust buildings, mostly by FF member Kelvin Barber
Folly Flaneuse
A blog about follies both existing and long gone, now expanded to cover a wider geographical area. A lot of historical information is unearthed and presented here.
fotoLibra
Gwyn Headley’s company which exists to provide high quality images to publications. There are a huge range of excellent images here.
Grotto Directory
Part of the Spas directory this is a directory of all the grottoes in the UK by County.
Historic England
This site specializes in images of listed buildings which can be purchased. It has a section on ‘Romantic Ruins’ which includes many follies.
Keeper’s Project
The Keeper’s Project records sites of sculpture gardens and the like which are threatened due to the death of the original owner.
Marsden Archive
Photo library by Simon Marsden, specializing in black and white photos of ruined houses with a few follies
Not a Castle
A blog about buildings with battlements that are not castles
Pinterest
Many different photo collections here – some that are of interest are Emily Speed’s page of Edible Architecture including many FF party cakes; a random page of images from our website follies.org.uk has a use in that many of them were from temporary news items that have since been deleted and Follies, Grottoes and hermitages is what you’d expect from the title.

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