NEAR LONDON 



holes are contained in the upper story of the 

 building, the lower chamber being a granary. 



At Cottered, in the same county, is a square 

 brick dovecote standing in an orchard, with 

 tiled roof, its dormer windows now filled in. It 

 is debased into a store for apples, and few de- 

 tails are to be obtained. Another Hertfordshire 

 dovecote will be found at the Hall Farm, Little 

 Wymondley — a brick building, with a half- 

 hipped gabled roof; while a fourth, a small sev- 

 enteenth-century structure of brick and tim- 

 ber, is at Norcott Court, near Northchurch. 



On the other side of London a particularly 

 charmingdovecote, not only delightful in itself, 

 but attractive from its situation and associa- 

 tions, offers itself for notice at the house known 

 as East Court, Detling, near Maidstone. East 

 Court is built upon the site of an old pilgrims' 

 "rest-house," demolished about eighty years 

 ago. The pilgrims' way to Canterbury from 

 Southampton passedclose by the charming old 

 walledgarden,and it is upon this long deserted 

 path the dovecote now looks down. 



It never looked upon the pilgrims who went 

 by, weary yet eager for the shrine they sought, 



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