This unique unusual 100ft Tower is Faringdon’s icon and the last major folly to be built in England. 
Hailed as 'Britain's finest 20th century Folly Tower' and 'One of the most important follies in Britain'

Please help us look after the Folly Tower and Woodland.
We need to raise money to pay for :-
extensive storm damage in the Woodland 
​important maintenance work on the Tower.

Go to
 DONATE 
​to see the ways you can send your contribution

Faringdon Dramatic Society are putting together a production to celebrate 800 years of Faringdon market charter.
Part of this production will be about The Folly. 
We would like to hear your stories about events and memories connected with The Folly. 
It would be lovely if these personal memories could be from old and young people, so please ask your parents, grandparents and children. 
Please do not post here, but email webmaster@faringdondramatic.orguk 
We will let you know if your story is used.
Thank you, and we look forward to reading about your memories.

The Tower sits on Folly Hill, within a charming 4 acre, circular woodland of splendid Scots Pine and broadleaf trees, some more than 200 years old.
 
Check out the fantastic views over 5 counties and find out about the history of Folly Hill, Henry James Pye (of Sing a Song of Sixpence fame), Oliver Cromwell and the very eccentric Lord Berners (the creator of the tower).
 
Seek out the 24 black birds and the giant willow pie, Cromwell’s cannon, the fairly useless bridge, Lord Berners in a tree, the giraffe, the mouse ..............and more. See the list  and photos on the Sculpture trail page

Please do not feed the giraffe!!

The Folly  Woodland is privately owned by the Faringdon Folly Tower Trust.
It is not public land but we allow the general public to have permissive access.

"There are many single points of view, which equal, or perhaps surpass, that to be seen from this place, but when a circuit is made of its summit, and new beauties are found at every step, it cannot fail to be pronounced the finest circular view in the kingdom,"
Extract from Pigot & Co's Directory of 1824

"It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men’s (and women’s) hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air, that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. "
Robert Louis Stevenson