Corstorphine Dovecot

The other day, on the way to visiting Crafty Green Boyfriend's mother, I stopped to take photos of the Corstorphine Dovecot. This was built in the 1500s and contains over 1,000 sandstone nestboxes for pigeons, kept to provide meat and eggs during the winter months. It is the only remaining part of Corstorphine Castle, which was demolished in the late eighteenth century. 

Although you can't go into the dovecot, there is a nicely maintained path allowing you to walk all the way round the structure. There's also a nice wrought iron dove on the gate to the path 

There are a few trees round the dovecot, but the most significant one is missing. The Corstorphine Sycamore, which is rich in local history, was destroyed in a storm in 1998. You can read more about the tree in my latest Substack post.