Ivory Towers and Dressed Stones: Exploring the Follies, Prospect Towers & Other Curiosities of Northern England, Volume 1 |
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... gives access to the viewing turret . You heave it open and the wind howls and buffets down the staircase - and this is a pleasant day ! Now for some vital statistics . Darwen Tower is an octagonal structure with outer faces 15 feet wide ...
... gives access to the viewing turret . You heave it open and the wind howls and buffets down the staircase - and this is a pleasant day ! Now for some vital statistics . Darwen Tower is an octagonal structure with outer faces 15 feet wide ...
Page 79
... gives access to a grassy path which winds around the quarry perimeter to the Parbold Bottle . Retrace your steps back to the B5239 and turn right , along a pathway running alongside the road . This soon reaches an area of parked cars ...
... gives access to a grassy path which winds around the quarry perimeter to the Parbold Bottle . Retrace your steps back to the B5239 and turn right , along a pathway running alongside the road . This soon reaches an area of parked cars ...
Page 84
... gives access to the dark interior . It seems incredible to think that this was once a building of some elegance . The building originally , we are told , had a pyramid roof , which would have made it very like its neighbour , nearby ...
... gives access to the dark interior . It seems incredible to think that this was once a building of some elegance . The building originally , we are told , had a pyramid roof , which would have made it very like its neighbour , nearby ...
Contents
About the Follies | 10 |
2 | 23 |
Ellesmere Memorial and Worsley | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Arnside Tower ascend Ashton Memorial Ashurst's Beacon bear left bear right Billinge Beacon Blacko Blacko Tower Blackpool Tower building built canal Canal Foot car park Castle century church Clougha Pike Conishead Priory Continue onwards Cross Darwen Tower descend Eggerslack Wood Ellesmere Memorial erected eventually Farm feet fell fence Finsthwaite Finsthwaite Tower follow folly footbridge footpath Foulridge Gardens gives access Grange Greater Manchester Hall Hartshead Pike hillside Hollinshead House interesting iron Jubilee Tower junction kissing gate Lake District Lakeland Lancashire Lancashire's Lancaster Landranger 109 Landranger 97 landscape lane Lever limestone Lindale Liverpool main road Manchester Map ref Mill moorland moors Morecambe Bay nearby Newby Bridge Obelisk once originally Parbold passing path leads Peel Monument Pennines proceed prospect tower quarry Quernmore railway Rivington Hall Rivington Pike route Silverdale steps stile stone summit Today track Trail tunnel turn left turn right Ulverston walk wall woodland Yorkshire