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Climbing to Broadway Tower 🏰✨🇬🇧
BROADWAY TOWER - ENGLAND
Broadway Tower, England (by Rosemarie Finch)
Broadway Tower, England
Broadway Tower, Broadway Hill, Broadway, Worcestershire, United Kingdom,
Photography: world_through_my_eyes_87
Broadway Tower is a folly on Broadway Hill, near the large village of Broadway, in the English county of Worcestershire, at the second-highest point of the Cotswolds (after Cleeve Hill).Broadway Tower's base is 1,024 feet (312 metres) above sea level.The tower itself stands 65 feet (20 metres) high.
The 'Saxon' tower was the brainchild of Capability Brown and designed by James Wyatt in 1794 in the form of a castle, and built for Lady Coventry in 1798–1799. The tower was built on a beacon hill, where beacons were lit on special occasions. Lady Coventry wondered whether a beacon on this hill could be seen from her house in Worcester — about 22 miles (35 km) away — and sponsored the construction of the folly to find out. Indeed, the beacon could be seen clearly.
Photograph by Richard@ flickr.