Jack The Treacle Eater

Jack the Treacle Eater is a folly built around 1775, made of local and Ham stone rubble and ashlar. It features a rough rubble arch approximately 5 meters high, topped with a circular tower constructed from cut and squared stone. The tower has a battlemented quasi-parapet and a conical stone roof, which is surmounted by a lead statuette of a winged Mercury. There is a blocked opening on the side of the tower, which leads to part of a rough stair. This structure serves as the east boundary marker, one of four, of the Barwick Park estate, likely erected by John Newman. The name 'Jack' refers to a local runner who delivered family messages to London and was said to have trained on treacle.