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Yarm Castle (miniature folly)

📍 YarmNorth Yorkshire

A tiny Victorian stone castle in a West Street front garden, with turrets and coloured windows.

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The church of Saint Mary Magdelene, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees. St. Mary's was rebuilt in 1730, also the site of "The Free Grammar School of Thomas Conyers" founded in 1590, demolished in 1885. (The Churc
The church of Saint Mary Magdelene, Yarm, Stockton-on-Tees. St. Mary's was rebuilt in 1730, also the site of "The Free Grammar School of Thomas Conyers" founded in 1590, demolished in 1885. (The ChurcPhoto: see below · CC BY-SA 2.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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Viewing from the street (it's in a private garden).

About

Yarm Castle isn't a real castle: it's a miniature stone folly built in the 1880s by local man David Doughty, who lived in the house next door.

Look out for its turrets, ramparts and coloured glass windows, which were once lit by gas. His son Henry later added a little model of Yarm Town Hall behind it.

It sits in a private front garden on West Street, so please enjoy it from the pavement. It's small and easy to miss, so keep your eyes peeled.

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