Lowe Stand

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Lowe Stand

Yorkshire
West Riding


Lowe Stand
Type: Folly
Location
Grid reference: SE36320097
Location: 53°30’15"N, 1°27’14"W
Village: Hoyland
History
For: Thomas Watson-Wentworth
Folly
Information

Lowe Stand is an 18th-century folly built for Thomas Watson-Wentworth, 1st Marquess of Rockingham, and likely originally intended as a hunting lodge.[1] It is situated by the town of Hoyland in the West Riding of Yorkshire, five miles southeast of Barnsley.

Today the Stand is a Grade II listed building[2] but is in a fairly advanced state of decay.[1] In 2008 the deeds were handed over from the council to voluntary group, the Friends of Hoyland Lowe Stand (now the Lowe Stand Trust).[3] The council has given permission to restore it according to the plan produced.[4]

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