folly

folly is a house in Hursley, Winchester District, England. folly is situated nearby to the ruins The Castle, as well as near the deciduous forest Little Hessians Copse.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Cranbury Park and Church of St Matthew.

Cranbury Park

Manor estate

Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.

Cranbury Park is a stately home and country estate situated in the parish of Hursley, Winchester, England. It was formerly the home to Sir Isaac Newton and later to the Chamberlayne family, whose descendants continue to own and occupy the house and surrounding park and farmland in the 21st century. Cranbury Park is situated 1,800 feet north of folly.

Church of St Matthew

Church

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Church of St Matthew is situated 3,100 feet east of folly.

Thornden School

School

Thornden School is a secondary school with academy status in Chandlers Ford, Hampshire. It is an 11-16, mixed specialist Arts College with Science as the second specialism. Thornden School is situated 2,800 feet south of folly.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boyatt Wood and Highbridge.

Boyatt Wood

Suburb

Photo: Basher Eyre, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Boyatt Wood is a small residential area north-west of Eastleigh in Hampshire, England named locally after the wooded area to the south of Boyatt Lane which connects the area to the village of Otterbourne.

Highbridge

Village

Colden Common is a civil parish in the Winchester District of Hampshire, England, approximately 5 miles south of the city of Winchester, covering an area of 690.74 hectares with a resident population of approximately 4,000 people.

Chandler’s Ford

Town

Photo: Peter Facey, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Eastleigh is a town in Hampshire that sits between Winchester and Southampton. The town has a long history associated with the railway, being the site of a large railway works that at one time was the major employer in the area. Chandler’s Ford is situated 1½ miles southwest of folly.

folly

Type: Tourist attraction
Address: Winchester, SO21 2HN
Categories: house, building, and tourism
Location: Hursley, Winchester District, Hampshire, South East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.00212° or 51° 0′ 8″ north

Longitude

-1.36368° or 1° 21′ 49″ west

Open location code

9C3W2J2P+RG

OpenStreetMap ID

way 80786767

OpenStreetMap feature

building=house

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=attraction

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