Boot’s Folly is a curious ruin in farmland overlooking Stines Reservoir. You can get inside the folly but access to the top has since crumbled away. Nevertheless, you get breathtaking views over the reservoir and the surrounding landscape from the base of the tower. The folly was built in 1927.

Alex Taylor

March 8, 2022

This is a very well-preserved ruin and interesting to look around, however, if you are heading to it hoping for refuge in bad weather be warned that it is generously carpeted with muck inside.

Ian Delve

July 26, 2023

Boot’s Folly, Strines Tower or Sugworth Tower was built in 1927 by Charles Boot the son of the founder of local construction company Henry Boot PLC.The tower was built out of the leftover stone from the construction of Bents House nearby. The stone was obtained by the demolition of Bents Farm, Pears House Farm and Nether Holes Farm all of which were apparently demolished because they were polluting local watercourses.Either it was commissioned by Charles Boot to provide work for some of his construction workers during the Great Depression, and/or to allow him to see the church yard at High Bradfield where his wife had been buried the year before (1926). Either way the tower is now derelict and has sadly lost its wood panelled interior and fittings – including a spiral staircase since a cow managed to climb it and get stuck in the tower.

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Location: Bradfield, Sheffield, Yorkshire And The Humber, England, United Kingdom

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