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Hadlow Tower

Hadlow, Kent

A Gothic tower built, the story goes, to keep watch on the sea, or on a runaway wife.

Walter Barton May added this tall, eight-sided Gothic tower to his house in the 1830s. Local legend gives two reasons: that he wanted to see the sea from the top, or that his wife had left him for another man and he wanted to watch her new home.

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When
Built 1838
Where
51.2236, 0.3394
Group
Towers & follies

Visiting

Seen from the village. It has been let as holiday accommodation.

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