WILTSHIRE 



garrison a welcome store of fresh and appetising 

 food is an octangular brick building with sides 

 seven feet in length. The roof, also octagonal, 

 is of old brown flat tiles. In one section of the 

 roof, that immediately above the door, there is 

 a wooden gable with four tiers of entrance-holes, 

 theholesbeingplaced in tiersof one, two, three, 

 and four. The apex of the roof is topped by a 

 stone pillar carrying a knob. 



The walls are two feet thick, the door five feet 

 in height. There are five hundred L-shaped 

 nest-holes, with a potence in good order. 



Passing now westward into Wiltshire, it is 

 possible that, to readers well grounded in the 

 works of Richard Jefferies, there will occur a 

 curious omission; dovecotes are surely never 

 mentioned in his most delightful books. Yet it 

 is difficult to think of any building that, for its 

 uses and associations, ought to have appealed 

 more strongly to his tastes. Surely among the 

 farms he haunted, the old villages in which he 

 loved to wander and to dream, somewhere a 

 dovecote stood. 



Oneatleaststandsinthe old garden of the now 

 deserted manor-house of Lydiard Millicent, a 



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