Blaine’s Folly
Blaine’s Folly is a tower in Bath and North East Somerset, England. Blaine’s Folly is situated nearby to the pitch Lower Astro, as well as near Mini Astro.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Paul Brooker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Tower
- Description: tower in Bath and North East Somerset, Somerset, England, UK
- Also known as: “Belvedere Tower”, “Belvedere Tower To Summerhill Park (Blaine’s Folly)”, and “Blaine’s Tower”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Kingswood School and Bath School of Art and Design.
Kingswood School
School
Photo: Virginia Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Kingswood School is a private day and boarding school in Bath, Somerset, England. The school is coeducational and educates over 1,000 pupils aged 9 months to 18 years. Kingswood School is situated 650 feet southeast of Blaine’s Folly.
Bath School of Art and Design
University
Photo: Break6700, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Bath School of Art and Design is an art college in Bath, England, now known separately as the Bath School of Art and the Bath School of Design. It forms part of the Bath Spa University whose main campus is located a few miles from the City at Newton Park, between Newton St Loe and Corston, in North Somerset, just outside the city of Bath. Bath School of Art and Design is situated 1,700 feet south of Blaine’s Folly.
Beckford’s Tower
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Beckford's Tower, originally known as Lansdown Tower, is an architectural folly built in neo-classical style on Lansdown Hill, just outside Bath, Somerset, England. Beckford’s Tower is situated 3,400 feet north of Blaine’s Folly.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lansdown and Charlcombe.
Lansdown
Suburb
Photo: Virginia Knight, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lansdown is a suburb of the World Heritage City of Bath, England, that extends northwards from the city centre up a road of the same name. Among its most distinctive architectural features are Lansdown Crescent and Sion Hill Place, which includes a campus…
Charlcombe
Suburb
Photo: ChurchCrawler, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Charlcombe is a civil parish and small village just north of Bath in the Bath and North East Somerset unitary authority, Somerset, England. The parish had a population of 422 in 2011, and includes the villages of Woolley and Langridge and the hamlet of Lansdown.
Walcot
Suburb
Photo: Maurice Pullin, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Walcot is a suburb of the city of Bath, in the Bath and North East Somerset district, in the ceremonial county of Somerset, England. It lies to the north-north-east of the city centre, and is an electoral ward of the city.
Blaine’s Folly
- Categories: building and historic site
- Location: Bath and North East Somerset, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.39769° or 51° 23′ 52″ northLongitude
-2.37416° or 2° 22′ 27″ westOpen location code
9C3V9JXG+38OpenStreetMap ID
way 557677549OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=follyOpenStreetMap feature
man_made=towerWikidata ID
Q26673978
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Highlights include Lower Astro and Mini Astro.
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