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Atlas ObscuraAug 7, 2026

Mad Jack Fuller's Mausoleum and Follies in Brightling, England

Mad Jack Fuller was an eccentric English squire, known for arriving at Parliament in a grand coach with outriders, getting suspended for calling the Speaker “an insignificant little fellow in a wig,” and generally being an outspoken Tory MP in the early 1800s. The most famous of the structures he spent his vast fortune on can be found in the churchyard of St. Thomas a Becket church and sticks o…

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