Knoll Tower at Weston Park, seen from the west

The Knoll Tower was built in 1883 on Tong Knoll, a hill on land that had been added to the park at Weston in the 1860s. The site had been suggested as a good location for a Tower by Benjamin Disraeli when he stayed at Weston. It was not, however, the first building to occupy the prominent rise of ground; George Durant junior of Tong Castle had, in fact, erected a monument tower to celebrate being encumbered with a low level of alimony when he divorced his first wife. His sons, the progeny of the first wife, blew this structure up on the night of his death in 1844!