The Folly Fellowship is a society set up in 1988 as a pressure group to protect, preserve and promote awareness of Britain’s follies, grottoes and garden buildings. It organises trips to follies and holds an annual garden party at a follied garden. Folly Fellowship members include architects, people who live in follies, people who build follies and other interested persons. For people of Britain, see Briton. ... Follies is a musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Goldman. ... A Grotto is a small cave, usually near water and often flooded or liable to flood at high tide. ...

The Folly Fellowship has recorded over 1,500 folly and grotto sites, and provided incentives to architects to create detailed plans suitable to be used to recreate these sites after they deteriorate.^[1]. The Folly Fellowship claims it is impossible to clearly define the line between architectural extravagance and "true folly". The group states that usually a builder does not intend to craft a folly, but that this is not always true. For example, Lord Berner commented of his folly at Faringdon(Oxford): "The great point of this tower, is that it will be entirely useless."^{[citation needed]} The Folly, from the A420 Faringdon market place All Saints church, Faringdon Faringdon is a picturesque market town in the Vale of White Horse, near the Thames Valley in southern England, United Kingdom. ...

The Fellowship is regarded as an authority on follies.^[2][3] They are also the caretakers of some notable follies. ^[4]

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External links

• The Folly Fellowship website

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