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Today it is of historical significance falling within the boundary of the Elvaston Castle Estate, which is registered as Grade II* on English Heritage’s Register of Historic Parks and Gardens. The mound itself is currently listed as a Grade II structure.
If, in the mid to late 1800s, you had looked across the lake from the castle to the far north shore, you would have had a clear view of what was then known as the Holy Land.
This had no religious significance, but was the name given to the rock work folly erected around 1839 and made to resemble a ruined castle, parts of which still remain today.
Constructed from many thousands of tons of stone, the folly is formed generally from common sand or gritstone, gypsum and tufa (pronounced ‘toofa’ – a petrified limestone and plant material, found locally in ...