It is situated on the top of a hill near Llanarthney in the River Tywi valley in Carmarthenshire, Wales.
It is a visitor attraction that can be combined with a visit to the nearby National Botanic Garden of Wales.
Paxton made his first fortune while with the East India Company in Calcutta with Charles Cockerell, brother of the architect.
[3] Middleton Hall was designed by the architect, Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1754–1827) and was destroyed by fire in 1931.
A piece of land at the nearby National Botanic Garden of Wales, named Paxton's View because of its views of the tower, features the sculpture Pi by Rawleigh Clay,[4] which consists of a large metal hoop mounted by a twisted wooden structure.