CHAPTER SEVEN 



NORTHAMPTON, 



BUCKINGHAM, AND 



HUNTINGDON 



Passing eastward, the player at this game 

 of dovecote-hunting finds himself growing 

 "warm" on entering Northamptonshire. Dove- 

 cotes are numerous, though many have now 

 disappeared; they are curious in being for the 

 most part either square or oblong, though cir- 

 cular and octagonal examples are by no means 

 absent; while many are but a short distance 

 from the county town. 



Let us award first place to a fine dovecote of 

 unusual size. It will be found at Newton-in- 

 the- Willows, a small village lying a little to the 

 west of Geddington. Church, village, dovecote 

 stand apart from one another; the last-named, 

 lonely in a field, is all that now remains of a 

 formermanor-housebelongingto the Tresham 

 family. 



Its size is most unusual; fifty-three feet nine, 

 by twenty-three feet seven; the height to the 

 eaves twenty feet, and to the roof-ridge about 



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