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Dinton Castle

Dinton-with-Ford and Upton, GB

Dinton Castle

Dinton Castle (also known as Dinton Folly) is located just north of the village of Dinton, in Buckinghamshire and was built as an eyecatcher from the Dinton Hall estate, by Sir John Vanhatten in 1769. He used the castle to exhibit his collection of fossils, ammonites, embedded in the limestone walls

. The "sham castle" or folly is a Priority A site with the Heritage at Risk Register and has been a Grade II Listed structure since 1951 when it was in a ruinous state.

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