Just outside the pretty Cheshire village of Bollington, you can hike up to the top of the nearby Kerridge Hill. At the summit, visitors are met by a bizarre structure that seems out of kilter with its rural surroundings. This is the White Nancy, a 200-year-old Georgian folly. The Nancy is an 18-foot-tall white cone, topped with a simple black finial. The folly was made from sandstone rubble, which was later rendered and painted white. The local Gaskell family built the structure in 1817 to commemorate the British victory at the…
