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ENCYCLOPEDIA OF BRITAIN
 
  More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)

 
More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
follies

Buildings of no practical purpose, constructed purely to amuse or delight the viewer. Large numbers were created in Britain in the 18C. They were a feature of the new informal fashion in *landscape gardening, in which a succession of pleasing vistas greeted the visitor and part of the pleasure of a walk round the grounds was chancing upon a hermit's cell, a grotto, a ruined Gothic tower, a classical temple or a pagoda.
 








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