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====England==== {{columns-list|colwidth=25em| * [[Ashton Memorial]], [[Lancaster, Lancashire|Lancaster]] * [[Barwick, Somerset#Barwick Park follies|Barwick Park follies]], Barwick, Somerset * [[Beckford's Tower]], [[Somerset]] * [[Blaise Castle Estate|Blaise Castle]], [[Bristol]] * [[Broadway Tower, Worcestershire|Broadway Tower]], [[Cotswolds|The Cotswolds]] * [[Bettison's Folly]], [[Hornsea]] * [[Black Castle Public House]], [[Bristol]] * [[Brizlee Tower]], Northumberland * [[Browne's Folly (tower)|Browne's Folly]], [[Bathford]], [[Somerset]] * The Cage at [[Lyme Park]], [[Cheshire]] * The Castle at [[Roundhay Park]], [[West Yorkshire]] * [[Chilton Priory]], Somerset * [[Clavell Tower]], [[Dorset]] * [[Conygar Tower]], [[Dunster]], Somerset * [[Cranmore Tower]], [[Cranmore, Somerset|Cranmore]], Somerset * [[Culloden Tower]], [[Richmond, North Yorkshire|Richmond]], [[North Yorkshire]] * [[Faringdon#Faringdon Folly|Faringdon Folly]], [[Faringdon]], [[Oxfordshire]] * [[Flounders' Folly]], [[Shropshire]] * [[Forbidden Corner]], [[North Yorkshire]] * [[Freston Tower]], arguably England's oldest folly, near [[Ipswich]], [[Suffolk]] * [[Garrick's Temple to Shakespeare]], Hampton * Gothic Tower at [[Goldney Hall]], [[Bristol]] * The [[Great Pagoda, Kew Gardens]], London¨ * [[Hadlow Castle#Tower|Hadlow Tower]], Hadlow, [[Kent]] * [[Hardwick Hall Country Park]], [[County Durham]] contains several restored follies * [[Hawkstone Park]], follies and gardens in [[Shropshire]] * Hiorne's Tower, [[Arundel Castle]], [[West Sussex]] * Horton Tower, [[Dorset]] * [[King Alfred's Tower]], [[Stourhead]], Somerset * [[Lund's Tower]], [[Sutton-in-Craven]], North Yorkshire * [[Luttrell's Tower]], [[Fawley, Hampshire|Fawley]], [[Hampshire]] * [[Mow Cop Castle]], [[Staffordshire]] *[[Nab End Tower]], [[Longwood, Huddersfield|Longwood]], [[West Yorkshire]] * [[Old John]], [[Bradgate Park]], [[Leicestershire]] * [[Painshill]], [[Cobham, Surrey]], an 18th-century [[landscape garden]] with several follies, some modern reconstructions * [[Penshaw Monument]], [[Penshaw]], [[City of Sunderland|Sunderland]] * [[Pelham's Pillar]], [[Caistor]], [[North Lincolnshire]] * [[Perrott's Folly]], [[Birmingham]] * Pope's Grotto, [[Twickenham]], South West [[London]] * [[Prospect Tower]], [[Calstock]], [[Cornwall]] * [[Racton Monument]], [[West Sussex]] * [https://britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/101312795-rogers-tower-ludgvan#.YOWHBS1Q041 Rogers' Tower][[Ludgvan]] * The Ruined Arch at the [[Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew]], London * [[Rushton Triangular Lodge]], [[Northamptonshire]] (16th century) * [[Severndroog Castle]], [[Shooter's Hill]], south-east [[London]] * [[Sham Castle]], Bathwick Hill, [[Bath, Somerset]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bathintime.co.uk/image.php?id=262674&idx=14&fromsearch=true |title=Sham Castle |publisher=Bath in Time |date=2007-02-08 |access-date=2012-11-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130524051448/http://www.bathintime.co.uk/image.php?id=262674&idx=14&fromsearch=true |archive-date=2013-05-24 |url-status=dead }}</ref> * The [[Sledmere Cross]] takes the form of an [[Eleanor Cross]] and is a true 'folly' that was 'converted' to a [[World War I]] Memorial * [[Solomon's Temple, Buxton|Solomon's Temple]], [[Buxton]], Derbyshire * [[Wentworth Castle#The first earl.27s landscape|Stainborough Castle]], [[South Yorkshire]] * Two of the follies in [[Staunton Country Park]] have survived until the present day * [[Stowe School]] has several follies in the grounds * [[Sway (village)#Sway Tower|Sway Tower]], [[New Forest]] * [[Tattingstone Wonder]], near [[Ipswich]], [[Suffolk]] * [[Wainhouse Tower]], the tallest folly in the world, [[Halifax, West Yorkshire|Halifax]], [[West Yorkshire]] * [[Wentworth Woodhouse#Follies and garden buildings|Wentworth Woodhouse]], [[Wentworth, South Yorkshire|Wentworth]], [[South Yorkshire]] * [[Wilder's Folly]], [[Sulham]], [[Berkshire]] * [[Williamson Tunnels]], probably the largest underground folly in the world, [[Liverpool]] * [[Wimpole's Folly|Wimpole’s Folly]], [[Cambridgeshire]] }} <gallery widths=200 heights=200> File:RushtonTriangularLodge.jpg|[[Rushton Triangular Lodge]], Northamptonshire, England, built in the late 16th century to symbolise the [[Holy Trinity]] File:Wimpole folly.JPG|[[Wimpole's Folly]], [[Cambridgeshire]], England, built in the 1700s to resemble Gothic-era ruins File:The Beacon Staunton Country Park.JPG|''The Beacon'': One of the remaining follies at [[Staunton Country Park]] originally commissioned by [[George Thomas Staunton]] and designed by [[Lewis Vulliamy]] </gallery>
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