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Tag: Blackdown Hills AONB

architecture, Devon, Folly, garden history, museum, sham church, Summerhouse

Garnsey’s Tower, Blackborough, Devon

Posted on June 9, 2023by Editor
Garnsey’s Tower, Blackborough, Devon

Near the hamlet of Blackborough in Devon’s Blackdown Hills, remnants of the local Whetstone mining industry can be found in the woodland. A battered pile of stones could be assumed to be another relic, but the more curious visitor will be intrigued to discover that it is marked on old maps as ‘Garnsey’s Tower’.

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