Folly (disambiguation)

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A folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration. It is also a synonym of foolishness, the lack of wisdom.

Folly may also refer to:

Places

Folly Brook, a 2 ¹⁄₄ miles (3.6 km) long brook in the London Borough of Barnet
Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Frome, Bristol
Folly Brook, a tributary of the River Clun, Shropshire
Folly Farm Adventure Park and Zoo, a farm and visitor attraction in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Folly Farm, Somerset, a traditionally managed visitable farm and nature reserve run by the Avon Wildlife Trust
Folly Island, a barrier island in the Atlantic Ocean near Charleston, South Carolina
- Folly Beach, South Carolina, a city, located on historic Folly Island, in Charleston County, South Carolina, United States
Folly Island, New Zealand, a subantarctic island located in New Zealand's Campbell Island group

Folly (allegory), a common allegorical figure in medieval morality plays and in allegorical artwork through the Renaissance
Folly (band), a band from Sussex, New Jersey
Folly, a color one-fourth of the way between crimson and rose, closer to crimson than to rose
"Folly", an 1886 statue by Edward Onslow Ford
USS Folly (SP-1453), a sailing schooner that served in the United States Navy as a patrol vessel during World War I
Yoann Folly (born 1985), French-born Togolese footballer
Seward's Folly, another name for the purchase of Alaska