Nether Liberton or Inch Doocot
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Nether Liberton or Inch Doocot
Image: © M J Richardson Taken: 16 Mar 2015
An early-17thC Scheduled Ancient Monument [A-listed]. A two chambered lectern-type doocot. A boarded door gives access to each chamber; there are 16 flight holes to each chamber set in mid-roof band and 5 flight holes at eaves above doorways, and a total of 2072 stone nest boxes. It is the largest remaining doocot in Edinburgh, formerly part of the Inch House estate. Google Earth imagery shows that there was a modern formal knot-garden from 2008 to 2012, - see Kim Traynor's image from 2011 Image - but it has now lost some of its formality.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.922965
Longitude
-3.164603