HEREFORDSHIRE 



the left hand as we ascend, and full in view, we 

 find it standing in the garden of a picturesque 

 farmhouse. It is a circular building of stone, 

 its roof not only crowned by a three-gabled 

 lantern, but broken by a trio of dormer win- 

 dows. These three dormers, a detail unique 

 in Herefordshire but matched in a beautiful 

 Worcestershire dovecote, add greatly to the 

 attraction of this charming old building. Few 

 dovecotes are more pleasing to the eye. 



Inside, as we have said, there is a potence; 

 also six hundred and thirty nests. The walls 

 are three feet eleven inches thick, exceeding 

 those at Garway by an inch, though the build- 

 ing can hardly pretend to rival our first 

 specimen in age. In truth it lacks some of 

 the austere aloofness which we may have felt 

 about the Garway cote. This is a snug, warm, 

 comfortable-looking building, not too old and 

 too remote to take its share in rural life to-day. 



Following the main road south for some six 

 miles we come to Leominster, not far distant 

 from which town the Arrow joins the Lugg. 

 If we elect to take as guide the larger stream, 

 in its now somewhat sluggish course to seek 



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