Comments on: The Ruin, Bingley, West Yorkshire

By: Editor

Editor — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:57:46 +0000

In reply to Ben. Thank you for this sound advice. I have removed the links.

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:53:35 +0000

A note of caution for current readers: don’t follow the links within this post! The friendsofstives domain has been hijacked, and the cottingley site is no longer available, sadly.

By: Dave

Dave — Sat, 31 Jul 2021 08:31:19 +0000

The ruin at Bingley is easily visited on foot along the public footpath that goes through ruin bank wood. There are many access paths well used by the public with no restriction.

By: Mow Cop Folly, Cheshire/Staffordshire Border – The Folly Flâneuse

Mow Cop Folly, Cheshire/Staffordshire Border – The Folly Flâneuse — Sat, 10 Nov 2018 17:21:29 +0000

[…] It used to be possible to climb right up to the tower, but it is now fenced off for the inevitable health and safety reasons. The wall’s rugged ruined outline has sadly been rebuilt into neat right-angles, but it remains the most perfectly designed and situated of follies, and surely the inspiration for Old John Tower in Bradgate Park, Leicestershire and St David’s Ruin in Yorkshire https://thefollyflaneuse.com/the-ruin-bingley-west-yorkshire/ […]

By: Editor

Editor — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 11:14:59 +0000

In reply to Gwyn. Your lovely rhyme has made my day more jolly Thanks for sharing in my world of folly.

By: Gwyn

Gwyn — Tue, 11 Sep 2018 10:32:11 +0000

Ah, the love of the C18 for the iambic pentameter:
The English Garden owes a lot to Rome
Italian sunshine knows no sweeter home
The Grotto shelters from the burning sun
Through northern climes the cooling waters run
The distant prospect shows a rocky crag
In former times they’d simply plant a flag
But now a ruin, sham or counterfeit
Improves the mount, and stands on top of it
The ancient lineage of the worthy lords
Stems more from pattern books than war-like swords
And then a Meulenkamp or Headley comes
Dissects their motives, and declares them bums.