[1] The folly garden is designed as a maze, with tunnels, grottoes, and novelty sculptures.

First part of a private garden built in the 1980s, it was opened to the public in 1997 with an entrance fee.

It was built in the 1980s by the owner of Tupgill Park, Colin Armstrong, with architect Malcolm Tempest, as a private pleasure garden.

[1] Colin Armstrong is a British Consul based in Guayaquil in South America.

[3] The garden features statues, sculptures, towers, tunnels, a labyrinth (with revolving floor), a 12-foot (3.7 m) conifer dog's head, a 20-foot (6.1 m) oak green man, water fountains,[1] as well as grottoes.