Talk:Eyecatcher (landscape)

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In my view this article is wrong and misleading. I believe it confuses the unusual term eyecatcher (or eye cacher or eye-catcher) with the long-established term 'folly'. A folly is indeed something placed in the landscape to catch the eye (ie for decorative purposes), but this article lists a whole lot of things that don't fit that description. For example a mausoleum, a monument, a shooting lodge or a summer house might well be decorative, and it may (indeed should) be placed so as to enhance its setting, but that is not its purpose. I got to this page because the term is used - incorrectly - in discussing the various follies in the park at Highclere Castle. They may indeed be eye-catching but what they are is follies!