Strines Dovecote
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One of the newer sections of the MLHS website, ‘Our Local Heritage’, takes a look at the buildings, and structures of the area. The latest addition, by Neil Mullineux, explores the history of Strines Dovecote.
Neil writes: Anyone travelling to Strines station will pass an exotic structure on the left hand side - a dovecote planted firmly in the middle of the mill pond. It is a Grade II listed building but that immediately raises two questions. Why is it there and when was it constructed? The short answer to both these questions is the same - “We don’t know” but we can make some informed guesses.
Read more at http://bit.ly/2HpNAfC (http://bit.ly/2HpNAfC)
Other articles in the series have so far covered,
the Coach House on Church Lane, http://bit.ly/2Gq14Xz (http://bit.ly/2Gq14Xz)
and two cottages on Upper Hibbert Lane http://bit.ly/2CrviqU (http://bit.ly/2CrviqU)
A growing feature of the website.