. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . PORCH OF THE GUARD TOWER. 65 66 Cotcbele illustrious owner of Cotehele to have to lly from some neigh-bouring squire, he would find it extremely difficult in his ownwoods to secure cover enough to screen him. Gravel pathswind downwards on either side of the ravine, past old ponds anda circular dovecot, until a palisade stretching across, whose gatesmust needs be locked, seems to bar farther progress in thatdirection. For the fortress above would otherwise be by no means im-pregnable against the attacks of hordes of trippers from Ply-mout
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. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . PORCH OF THE GUARD TOWER. 65 66 Cotcbele illustrious owner of Cotehele to have to lly from some neigh-bouring squire, he would find it extremely difficult in his ownwoods to secure cover enough to screen him. Gravel pathswind downwards on either side of the ravine, past old ponds anda circular dovecot, until a palisade stretching across, whose gatesmust needs be locked, seems to bar farther progress in thatdirection. For the fortress above would otherwise be by no means im-pregnable against the attacks of hordes of trippers from Ply-mouth. You have only to proceed round the bend to the right, on to the precipitous knoll where Sir Richards votive Chapel sopicturesquely stands, directly above the water, to see abundantevidence of their incursions on the panels of the oak door nilscored and stencilled with their initials. This kind of excursion-ists gratitude, for admission to private grounds, by the way, iscleverly avoided at Swanage where a deal board near the geograph-ical globe on the headland bears a printed