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Decoys in the County of Monmouth. 

 Decoys in use. Decoys not in use. 



None. 



Wilcrick. 

 Nash. 



Nasli and Wilcrick, 4 and 5 miles E. from Newport, within 3 miles 

 of the Bristol Channel. On the Caldicott Level, and some distance from 

 any dwelling in these two parishes, there were formerly two Decoys, that at 

 Nash belonging to Miss Wilcox, that at Wilcrick (or Whitson) belonging 

 to the Misses Rouse of Court-y-Ralla, near Cardiff They were both 

 owned by the late Mr. Joseph Wilcox, and are believed to have been 

 constructed about 80 or 100 years ago. They have been disused since 

 1848-49. Each pool covered about an acre, and they had six pipes apiece. 

 Duck, Teal, and Wigeon were taken, the number varying considerably ; 

 but on one occasion 99 were caught in one drive at the Nash pool. The 

 Wilcrick pool is 500 yards S. of Bishton, on the South Wales Railway, and 

 3 miles W. of Magor ; the Nash pool a mile E. of the former one. 



When the Great Western Railway was constructed, and passed within 

 half a mile ot these pools, the Decoys became worthless. I am informed 

 that ;^500 was paid by the Company in compensation. 



Decoys in the Countv of Montgomery. 



Decoys m use. Decoys not in jtse. 



Lymore Hall. | None. 



Lymore Hall, within 200 paces of the mansion, and about half a mile 

 from the county town of Montgomery, at Lymore Hall, the property of 

 Earl Powis, is a pool of 2 acres, surrounded by plantations, where a Decoy 

 was constructed about the year 1802. It has three pipes, two facing the 

 north and one facing the south. Comparatively few fowl, however, are 

 captured, the average " take " every season for the last ten years, within the 

 present keeper's knowledge, being not more than fifty couple. 



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