Bee boles in a wall at West Linton
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Bee boles in a wall at West Linton
Image: © Walter Baxter Taken: 26 Sep 2008
These square recesses in an earlier manse garden wall in St Andrew's Old Kirkyard, are where bee skeps or hives were kept in days gone by. This bee bole can be found in the Bee Boles Registry at http://ibra.beeboles.org.uk/search_detail.php?beeboleIBRARegNo=0435&Record_detail=Record+detail Thanks to David Hawgood for details of the Bee Boles Registry.
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Image Location
Latitude
55.750636
Longitude
-3.355909