...can be just an expression of joy, an attempt to provide an eye-catching adornment to the landscape, or they can convey coded political messages. London follies might include the King's Cross Lighthouse and the Hyde Park Temple (amongst many others). See the searchable map below for follies in Britain and Ireland
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| The Lighthouse Block, 297 Pentonville Road © Copyright Oxyman and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. |
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| Hyde Park - Temple Lodge © Copyright Peter Whatley and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. |
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| The Exedra at Chiswick House (an intriguing and multi-layered designed landscape) once declared loyalty to democracy with figures of the poets Horace, Homer and Virgil, the philosopher Socrates, and the leaders Lucius Verus and Lycurgus. (© Richard Bryant) |
Political folly is on a far larger scale than that of landscapes - although it can scar landscapes for generations
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