King Alfred's Tower

This is an old landmark where I used to live...well, it was about 15 miles from where i used to live. Remarkable building, in the middle of nowhere.



The article here explains it as "one of the finest triangular folly towers in the country, designed by the man who gave us Wentworth Woodhouse's Hoober Stand and Fort Belvedere in Windsor Great Park, the first triangular folly tower. Alfred's Tower stands 160 feet high, sheer windowless brick, unashamedly built for the view from the top - the ten tiny stair-turret windows do no more than illuminate the steps. Designed in 1765, it was completed in 1772 on the spot where Alfred the Great in AD 870 On this summit erected his standard against Danish invaders".