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