By 1909, Ordnance Survey cartographers were already recording it as "Lady Margaret's Tower (in Ruins)", a name evocative enough to suggest a history, a person, a story. The difficulty is that no stone remains above ground, and the structure was in all probability a folly, one of those deliberately whimsical or romantic constructions that the landed classes of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries erected to ornament their estates and give a suitably antique air to the landscape.

The paper trail is thin but telling. The 1837 edition of the six-inch Ordnance Survey map marks the spot simply as "Tower", without elaboration. By the time the more detailed 25-inch survey was produced in 1909, the name Lady Margaret had attached itself to the ruin, though no record appears to explain who she was or when the structure was built. It was absent from the Sites and Monuments Record compiled in 1989, suggesting it had not been considered significant or verifiable at that point, though it was subsequently included in the Record of Monuments and Places in 1995 under the classification of Tower Site. That gap between the two records reflects the kind of quiet reassessment that happens when place names and map evidence are weighed against the absence of physical remains.

Today there is nothing visible at the site. The tower, if it was ever substantial, has vanished entirely into the ground or was perhaps never more than a modest construction to begin with. What lingers is the name, Lady Margaret's Tower, carrying the suggestion of someone considered worth commemorating, in a landscape that has since forgotten the reason why.