Went on a hike around Ayesgarth, Yorkshire. Came across this in a farmer’s field. Curious to what it was used for.

by Ok_Sentence_1835

24 comments

  1. All the world’s a golf ball

    And thou hast found its tee

  2. It is where duck and political posts are sent to be destroyed.

  3. It just looks like a folly. No real use intended, just ornamental.

  8. It’s a folly, probably on land owned by someone who made money with a mill/factory of some sort

  12. If it’s a mill chimney there might be £200 hidden at the base of it

  17. This is a wool checking tower for sheep farmers. Back in the times before computers, farmers were expected to understand the thickness and weight of the wool they were getting from their sheep. These towers were communal areas for sheep farmers to bring representative samples from each wool collection to drop from the top of the tower – the heavier wool would drop faster and the thicker wool would float more. They would time the drop and calculate the wool quality based on the drop time and I have no idea what I’m talking about.

  19. Like someone else said, it’s a folly, an entirely ornamental structure or ruin. For a while the Victorians thought that big ornate medieval ruins were fashionable, and so they built a lot of deliberately crumbling towers and similar structures all over the country.

  21. Secret exit from a long tunnel that connects to a network of sewers under the city where there’s a heap of cool extra side quests you’ve yet to encounter.

    There’s some seriously cool equipment on the other side of the door inside; however, that door is locked, you can’t go in through it until you’ve previously exited out of it, because game design.

  22. Cock worshiping cult HQ, meets every Tuesday night 11pm, bring snacks, no ball games allowed.

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