Wilder’s Folly
Wilder's Folly is a folly and dovecote at Nunhide, near the village of Sulham in the English county of Berkshire.Photo: BabelStone, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Tower
- Description: brick tower in Berkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Dovecote Approximatley 180 Metres To East Of Nunhide Manor”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include IKEA Reading and Theale railway station.
IKEA Reading
Furniture retailer
Photo: Lewis Clarke, CC BY-SA 2.0.
IKEA Reading is a furniture retailer, which is situated 2,300 feet south of Wilder’s Folly.
Theale railway station
Railway station
Photo: Geof Sheppard, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Theale railway station serves the village of Theale, England. It is 41 miles 22 chains measured from London Paddington. The station is served by Great Western Railway local services between Reading and Newbury, limited semi-fast peak services between Bedwyn and London and a limited semi-fast service between London and Westbury, Taunton, Frome, Penzance and Exeter St Davids. Theale railway station is situated 1 mile south of Wilder’s Folly.
Little Heath School
School
Little Heath School is a voluntary-aided co-educational comprehensive secondary school. The school is located in the Little Heath area of the Reading suburb of Tilehurst, in the English county of Berkshire. Little Heath School is situated 3,100 feet northeast of Wilder’s Folly.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Little Heath and Calcot.
Little Heath
Suburb
Photo: Rosalind Mitchell, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Little Heath is a village near Tilehurst in the West Berkshire borough of Berkshire, England. It borders Reading and the town's wider borough.
Calcot
Suburb
Calcot, or Calcot Row, is a village in West Berkshire, England. Calcot is within the built-up area of Reading, located about 3 miles out of the town centre, and straddles the historic A4 Bath Road.
Theale
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Theale is a village and civil parish in West Berkshire, England. It is 5 miles southwest of Reading and 10 miles east of Thatcham. The compact parish is bounded to the south and south-east by the Kennet & Avon Canal, to the north by a golf course, to the east by the M4 motorway and to the west by the A340 road.
Wilder’s Folly
- Categories: folly tower, folly, dovecote, building, and historic site
- Location: Tilehurst, West Berkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.44821° or 51° 26′ 54″ northLongitude
-1.06727° or 1° 4′ 2″ westOpen location code
9C3WCWXM+73OpenStreetMap ID
way 223232458OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=follyOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q8001075
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