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Volta Tower
Volta Tower was a folly in the town of Finedon, Northamptonshire, England.
The tower was built in 1865 by William Harcourt Isham Mackworth-Dolben of Finedon Hall. William Mackworth (1806—72), a younger son of Sir Digby Mackworth, the 3rd Baronet, took the additional surname Dolben after he married Frances, the heiress of Sir John English Dolben, the 4th Baronet.
==History==
Mackworth-Dolben built the tower to commemorate the death of his eldest son, Lieutenant Commander William Digby Dolben, who drowned off the west coast of Africa on 1 September 1863, aged 24. William, serving on HMS ''Investigator'', drowned crossing the bar of Lagos〔''Stamford Mercury'' 23 October 1863 page 4〕 when the gig, a four-oar whaler was swamped.〔("The Accident off Lagos" ) ''New Zealand Herald'', Volume I, Issue 97, 5 March 1864, Page 3〕〔(''Anglo-African'' 3 September 1863 )〕 His younger brother, the poet Digby Mackworth Dolben drowned in 1867.
The tower was circular and about 100 feet high. A gabled extension of one of the two floors had been added in keeping. The tower stood far back with a long driveway in front, along Station Road in Finedon. Not much changed in the surroundings of Volta Tower except that Finedon's new cemetery was built alongside in 1892.
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