There is also a water maze, opened in 1999, the object of which is to get to the folly at the centre without getting wet, while in the children's adventure playground there is a tower maze.

* Brizlee Tower, a Grade 1 listed folly tower set atop a hill in Hulne Park, the Duke's walled estate, designed by Robert Adam in 1777 and erected in 1781 for Hugh Percy, 1st Duke of Northumberland.

A major focus of his career was the remodelling of older country houses, his first major commission was the transformation of Henry Holland's Trentham Hall, Staffordshire ( 1834 – 40 ) it was remodelled in the Italianate style with a large tower ( a feature Barry often included in his country houses ), Barry also designed the Italianate gardens, with parterres and fountains, largely demolished in 1912, only a small portion of the house consisting of the porte-cochère, with a curving corridor and the stables are still standing, although the gardens are undergoing a restoration, additionally the belvedere from the top of the tower survives as a folly at Sandon Hall.

* Wainhouse tower, the tallest folly in the world, Halifax, England

Charles Boot built a folly tower overlooking Strines Reservoir in 1927 known as Boot's Folly, it is a prominent landmark for miles around.

Bateman's tower was built in 1883 by John Bateman which he used as a folly for his daughter to recuperate from consumption ; however it may have been intended as a lighthouse as part of a failed plan to expand the port.

During The Second World War the original roof of the folly was removed so that the tower could be used as an observation post by the Royal Observer Corps.

At about the same date a folly in the form of a ruined medieval tower was constructed on the site of an old limekiln at the highest point of the estate.

By the early 19th century the tower was in ruins and in 1893 it was restored as a folly.

Also demolished was Monk Bretton ' Castle ', a folly on Burton Bank built by a local priest as a look-out tower or observatory and subsequently used for the lighting of beacons on occasions such as royal events and the end of wars.

Returning next time on bicycles, they go further to Mow Cop, a hill dominated by a folly tower.

Macey seems to participate in the Civil War massacre while killing at the Barthomley stockade, and while on Mow Cop he has visions of the folly tower.

The tower dates back to the 18th century, and was originally constructed by an ancestor of the Warde family, the present owners of Squerryes Court as a folly for their children's amusement.

On an island in the mere is a folly tower, dating from about 1780, constructed in red brick.

The house burnt down in 1861, although a folly tower is still extant.

At the top of the ridge adjoining the hamlet of Edgehill is the Octagonal Tower, a folly designed by Sanderson Miller as a scale model of a tower at Warwick Castle.

At its heart is Glenveagh Castle, a beautiful late Victorian ' folly ' that was originally built as a summer residence.

Atop Grinlow Hill, 1, 441 feet ( 439 m ) above sea level, is Grinlow Tower ( locally also called " Solomon's Temple "), a two-storey granite, crooked, crenelated folly built in 1834 by Solomon Mycock to provide work for the town's unemployed and later restored in 1996 after a lengthy closure to the public.

* Image of the folly built from the ruins of the north transept on the Cranbury Park estate

Adjoining the pier and contemporary with it is the Toll House, built in the style of a folly castle and provided as accommodation for the pier-master.

Ironically the rectory is shielded from the empty site of the family's former more splendid home by a battlemented folly wall, built by a former Duncombe who disliked the vicar so much that he did not wish to see him or his home!

Hartwell's Egyptian Spring is a folly built in 1850 by Joseph Bonomi the Younger, an Egyptologist.

Other local landmarks include Severndroog Castle, a folly designed by the architect Richard Jupp in 1784 and built to commemorate Commodore Sir William James, who on 2 April 1755 attacked and destroyed a pirate fortress at Suvarnadurg along the western coast of India.

* Isabella ’ s Tower, a folly built on top of a hill by Aubrey de Vere Beauclerc in the 19th century as a gazebo for his invalid daughter.

The Ashton Memorial is a folly in Williamson Park, Lancaster, England built between 1907 and 1909 by millionaire industrialist Baron Ashton in memory of his second wife, Jessy, at a cost of over £ 80, 000 (£ 4, 588, 000 in today's money ).

The folly on Folly Hill was designed by Gerald Wellesley, Marquess of Douro for Lord Berners and built in 1935.

At this time, he built a folly structure on the Shaftesbury Estate, known as the Philosopher's Tower.

* Mow Cop Castle in Staffordshire, a folly, built by Randle Wilbraham

Image: Wimpole folly. JPG | Wimpole's Folly, built in the 1700s to resemble Gothic-era ruins

The following year a folly, Severndroog Castle ( designed by East India Company architect Richard Jupp ), was built as a memorial to him by his wife, Lady James of Eltham, on nearby Shooter's Hill in south-east London.

* a folly, Severndroog Castle ( built as a memorial to Commodore Sir William James – a former chairman of the East India Company ), on Shooter's Hill in south-east London ( 1784 ).

The town is home to an 18th century folly called Lowe Stand, more often referred to in documents as Law Stand, built as a lookout and hunting lodge shortly before his death by the first Marquess of Rockingham, at the highest point in the area some 593 ft above sea level.

** note error: The Castle was built by Walter May, not his son, who only built the folly

The folly was built to look like a ruined castle in 1754, and was used as a summerhouse for Randle Wilbraham of Rode Hall, 3 miles away.

As of 1904, Flagler started what everybody considered a folly: the extension of the FEC to Key West which would later be known as the Overseas Railway, at the time considered the eighth wonder of the world and surely the most daring infrastructure ever built exclusively with private funds.

Extant historical Ostankino includes the main wooden palace, built in 1792-1798 around a theater hall, with adjacent Egyptian and Italian pavilions, a 17th century Trinity church, and fragments of the old Ostankino park with a replica of Milovzor folly.

In the meantime, generations keep being born, bitterness is increased by incompetence, pride, and folly, and the world shrinks around us.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

One of the cookbooks that proliferated in the colonies was The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy written by Hannah Glasse, wrote of disdain for the French style of cookery, stating “ the blind folly of this age that would rather be imposed on by a French booby, than give encouragement to a good English cook !” Of the French recipes, she does add to the text she speaks out flagrantly against the dishes as she “… think it an odd jumble of trash .” Reinforcing the anti-French sentiment was the French and Indian War from 1754-1764.

Atë, ancient Greek for " ruin, folly, delusion ," is the action performed by the hero or heroine, usually because of his or her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his or her death or downfall.

America sees the absurdities -- she sees the kingdoms of Europe, disturbed by wrangling sectaries, or their commerce, population and improvements of every kind cramped and retarded, because the human mind like the body is fettered ' and bound fast by the chords of policy and superstition ': She laughs at their folly and shuns their errors: She founds her empire upon the idea of universal toleration: She admits all religions into her bosom ; She secures the sacred rights of every individual ; and ( astonishing absurdity to Europeans!

This folly was then embellished upon by John Robison ( 1739 – 1805 ), a professor of Natural Philosophy at the University of Edinburgh, in an anti-Masonic work published in 1797.

* The language of wisdom and folly ; background readings in semantics edited by Irving J. Lee, Harper and Row, 1949.

The themes of the book are nostalgia, the folly of trying to go back and recapture past glories and the easy way the dreams and aspirations of one's youth can be smothered by the humdrum routine of work, marriage and getting old.

" In the same round-table, Chon Noriega suggests that the film has been misinterpreted and the satire overlooked because " the film lacks the usual coordinates and signposts for a critique of human vice and folly provided by sarcasm, irony, and caustic wit.

At the time, it was heavily derided by competitors as being " un-American " and the fund itself was seen as " Bogle's folly ".

On the grounds of the castle is Warren House, a former warrener's lodge converted into a late 18th-century folly on command of one of the castle's inhabitants to add interest to his horizon, complete with a single decorative facade facing the castle ; it is grade II * listed and owned by the Landmark Trust but currently dilapidated.

Brizlee Tower, a folly and observation platform overlooking Hulne Park, the Duke of Northumberand's walled estate by Alnwick Castle

Using a minimalist story and dialogue, the film creates a vision of madness and folly, counterpointed by the lush but unforgiving Amazonian jungle.

In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but either suggesting by its appearance some other purpose, or merely so extravagant that it transcends the normal range of garden ornaments or other class of building to which it belongs.

These fortifications were presciently described by William Ewart Gladstone as " a monument of human folly, useless to us ... but perhaps not absolutely useless to a possible enemy, with whom we may at some period have to deal and who may possibly be able to extract some profit in the way of shelter and accommodation from the ruins.

The shrine was regarded by all of the advisers living in the country as an old man's folly.

Its vice will govern it, by practising upon its folly.

After recording the vice or folly of so many Roman princes, it is pleasing to repose, for a moment, on a character conspicuous by the qualities of humanity, justice, temperance, and fortitude ; to contemplate a sovereign affable in his palace, pious in the church, impartial on the seat of judgment, and victorious, at least by his generals, in the Persian war.

Dubbed by some as a folly, this was never the case, as the Keep was always intended to be lived in, and was occupied well into the 20th century.

In the third book, the general concepts proposed thus far are applied to demonstrate that the vital and intellectual principles, the Anima and Animus, are as much a part of us as are our limbs and members, but like those limbs and members have no distinct and independent existence, and that hence soul and body live and perish together ; the argument being wound up by a magnificent exposure of the folly manifested in a dread of death, which will for ever extinguish all feeling.