BOOK OF DOVECOTES 



ed roof, as seen at Garway and elsewhere, may 

 quite well have existed formerly and been re- 

 placed by that now seen. The dovecote-lover 

 may congratulate himself, not only on the Hur- 

 ley dovecote, but upon the knowledge that it is 

 in careful hands. 



Standing on the lawn at Place Manor, Streat- 

 ley, is a fine circular stone dovecote nearly 

 eighty feet in circumference. The roof, of tiles, 

 is topped by a square cupola, and has a single 

 dormer window. The walls are three feet eight 

 inches thick, and the arched doorway five feet 

 high by rather more than two feet wide. The 

 oaken door appears to be original. Inside there 

 is a potence, also three hundred and fifty nest- 

 holes. 



Turning now to Hertfordshire, we find an 

 octagonal brick dovecote of unusual size at 

 Walkern Manor Farm, near Stevenage. The 

 height to eaves is twenty feet, while each of the 

 eight faces is twelve feet in length. The walls, 

 however, are but fourteen inches thick. The 

 tiled roof is crowned by a small open cupola of 

 rather elegant form, which coversacentralopen- 

 ing. More than five hundred plainoblong nest- 

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