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terns that give light to each division are in 

 somewhat bad repair. 



Two dovecotes stand in the garden of Bag 

 End Farm, Dormstone, each holding between 

 five hundred and six hundred nests. One, 

 slightly the smaller of the two, has a four- 

 gabled roof and four windows, and bears the 

 date 141 3 upon some lead-work. A somewhat 

 similar dovecote occurs at the Moat Farm, in 

 the same parish; it also is four-gabled, and is 

 built on a stone foundation. 



The comparatively small dovecote at Manor 

 House Farm, Broughton Hackett, is of "black 

 and white" structure on a foundation of stone. 

 It is of rather special interest; for, in spite of 

 its small size — sixteen by fourteen feet — it con- 

 tains as many as twelve hundred nests. These 

 are of wood, arranged with great economy of 

 space. Less than half this accommodation is 

 available in the much larger building at Staun- 

 ton Court; a dovecote twenty-six feet by 

 twenty-one, with walls two feet six inches 

 thick. It is hardly probable that this is the 

 dovecote alluded to in the Red Book of Ex- 

 chequer, where it is noted that Peter jde 



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