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Dinton Castle

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Dinton folly
Dinton folly

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 Vanhattern 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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Dinton Castle
The Aylesbury Ring,

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Dinton Folly

The Aylesbury Ring
HP17 8UX , Dinton-with-Ford and Upton
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