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Welbeck Abbey ............................Co-Ords 456280 374280

The following two follies were chosen because they also have a tenuous link with Welbeck.

Duke's Folly. This has connections with Welbeck Abbey above, and is a mock two storey gateway in the forest near Clipstone, straddling the path to King John's Palace.
In keeping with the areas connections, it is adorned with miniature statues of Robin Hood, Maid Marion, and that 'baddie', King John.
It was built in 1844 for the Fourth Duke of Portland, 10 years before the old mans death and the start of his son's underground obsession, at Welbeck.
If you believe in lay lines [counselling is available ], you may be interested to know that the gatehouse is said to sit on one.

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Newstead Forts.
Asked to name a god fearing, clean living, non smoking, teetotal poet, and Lord Byron will not feature in the answers given.
The sixth Lord Byron, the poet we all know, was ten when he inherited Newstead Abbey from his great-uncle [the fifth lord] - the original abbey like Welbeck had fallen foul of King Henry VIII. It was this uncle who had previously built these two mock forts in the Newstead Estate, plus also at one time a mock castle. This of course was long before planning officers reared their ugly heads.
The forts, one larger than the other, are situated either side of the lake, I do not recall them as being open for access though, unlike the grounds and interior of Newstead Abbey which are.

Oddly much like his neighbour the Duke of Portland (mentioned above), the fifth Lord Byron ended up a recluse, rattling around in a big house alone.

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Newcastle's Mausoleum
Like the version of the Temple of Harmony in Somerset, which I described as sitting 'incongruously in a field', we have the same thing at Milton, 15 or so miles west from Lincoln.
It is in fact the Duchess of Newcastle's mausoleum, who died during childbirth.
It was built in the 1830's by her husband, Henry Pelham-Clinton - the fourth Duke, and designed by Sir Robert Smirke.
The fourth Duke, who was not widely liked, must have thought dearly of his wife, because Sir Robert would not have come cheaply, as at the time he was working on the British Museum.
[He also worked on Brightling Park Observatory] .

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