What is recorded here
Mock/castle folly built in 1762. Illumnated at night.
Ralph Allen’s Sham Castle was built by Ralph Allen, an English architect and landowner, in 1762 as a decorative folly. It is remembered as an example of 18th-century landscape architecture and as a symbol of the Georgian era's fascination with romanticized ruins and artificial structures.
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