Faringdon
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Faringdon is a historic market town in the Vale of White Horse, Oxfordshire, England, 18 miles south-west of Oxford, 10 miles north-west of Wantage and 12 miles east-north-east of Swindon. Its views e
The Old Town Hall
All Saints' Parish Church
Faringdon Folly, built by Lord Berners on his estate in 1935
Detail of Lord Berners's 1936 painting of Faringdon Folly, used as an advertisement by Shell, 1936
Lord Berners
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Gerald Hugh Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners, also known as Gerald Tyrwhitt, was a British composer, novelist, painter, and aesthete. He was also known as Lord Berners.
Faringdon
…near Lockinge, and the Cotswolds to the north-west. The folly on Folly Hill was designed by Lord Gerald Wellesley, later 7th Duke of Wellington, for Lord Berners, and built in 1935. It is 140 feet (43 m) high and affords panoramic views of the Vale of White Horse. It once bore a sign saying "Members of the public…
Portrait of Lord Berners, by Rex Whistler, 1929