YORKSHIRE 



and a caretaker's dwelling. Nests formerly ex- 

 isted in the upper portion, and a potence was 

 in use. It is a building of large size, and must 

 once have furnished the vicar of Darrington 

 with a food-supply of no small value. 



In certain parts of Yorkshire, as in the 

 neighbourhood of Halifax, pigeon-houses pro- 

 per are less common than what are locally call- 

 ed ''pigeon-hoils," usually found forming an 

 upper story to hen- or pig-''hoils" — the word 

 being a north of England term for a hole or 

 shelter. A similar arrangement is frequently 

 found in the gables of barns, and, more curi- 

 ously, in the gables, and especially the porches, 

 of many houses of the seventeenth and eight- 

 eenth centuries. 



An example of this occurs at Little Burlees, 

 Wadsworth; another at Kirk Cliff, Soyland, a 

 house dated 1630, where three entrance-holes 

 appear above the low projecting porch; while 

 Eastwood Lee, Stansfield, and Upper Cock- 

 roft, Rishworth, exhibit a like provision. The 

 pigeon-holes lead in each case to a low but 

 fairly spacious room, entrance to which is pro- 

 vided inside the dwelling by a trap-door in the 



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