King Alfred’s Tower -National Trust

• 16 Jun, 2024
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To get here we pass through North Dorset, into Wiltshire and then into Somerset. All within 12 miles of home! It’s on the Stourhead estate. Built as a folly 252 years ago, using 1.2 million bricks, and at a cost of 5 thousand pounds. That’s about a million in today’s money. But no way could we build it for that now…without using any scaffolding! It has survived being crashed into by a plane during WW2 amongst other things. That Man at the top is Scott. I was waiting with the dog! It’s surrounded by a wildflower meadow with orchids etc. and then a woodland which falls away steeply to the south. We can see it on the horizon from our bedroom window.