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Overbury's Folly & Thalassery Pier

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Overbury's Folly & Thalassery Pier

Thalassery · 22 km from Kannur

Photo: Ashwini Prabhakaran · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

A cliff-top garden built by a British judge in the 1880s and the ruined iron pier, Thalassery's favourite sunset spots.

Overbury's Folly, named after the collector E.N. Overbury who began a seaside garden in 1879 that was never completed, is now a landscaped park run by DTPC on a cliff overlooking the sea. A short walk away is the century-old iron sea pier, once used to load pepper and coffee onto ships.

Timings

9 am – 8 pm

Entry

Nominal (DTPC)

How to reach

Near Thalassery Fort, 1.5 km from Thalassery railway station.

Photos

Photo: Ashwini Prabhakaran · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Abhilash raman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Abhilash raman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: Abhilash raman · CC BY-SA 4.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

Photo: ShajiA at Malayalam Wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · via Wikimedia Commons

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