BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



century. 



I n Westmorland the farm of N ether Levens, 

 near Milnthorpe, will show two dovecotes, both 

 standing in the farmyard. The largest is about 

 twenty-seven feet square by twenty-five feet 

 high to the eaves, has a ridge-roof, and is divid- 

 ed into an upper and lower story. The nest- 

 holes have been largely filled up within recent 

 years, and the door enlarged. 



The second dovecote, also square but small- 

 er, has a pyramid roof, with a stone ball upon 

 the top. Like its neighbour, it has suffered a 

 good deal of alteration. Both buildings are of 

 stone. 



Crossing from Westmorland to Cumber- 

 land, we are in a district of much interest to the 

 dovecote-hunter, and our survey of the county's 

 specimens may well begin with the interest- 

 ing example standing in the grounds of the 

 mansion of Hutton-i'-the-Forest. Its present 

 position is in a plantation of trees; this, we may 

 be sure, was non-existent when the dovecote 

 was erected, for pigeons do not like a tree-sur- 

 roundedhome — one reason being probably the 

 difficulty of seeing where it lies. 

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