DORSET 



open cupola, poised on pillars many and slender. 

 The walls are three feet thick, the doorway not 

 particularly small. Inside are several hundred 

 L-shaped nests. There is a subtle air of both 

 antiquity and grace about the Bingham's Mel- 

 combe dovecote, rendering it unfitted to be any- 

 where than in its own peculiar place. 



Beauty at Bingham's Melcombe — thither 

 have we wandered by a long and devious road 

 from Garway's rugged walls; and here our sur- 

 vey of some English dovecotes ends. Turnnow 

 to what awaits us north of Tweed. 



