Mary Queen of Scots and the Dalesman she married
REPORTS of bee boles are magnetically drawn to this column like bees to a honeypot, and so Rosemary Graham has kindly sent in a picture of the fine line of boles in West Scrafton in Coverdale. Bee boles are south-facing recesses in walls in which skeps – the domed bee baskets – were placed so that bees had somewhere to live close to a source of nectar, and that was also convenient for humans to harvest their honey and wax. The line of 12 bee boles at West Scrafton dates from the 19th Century and is in the garden wall of Culverham House.
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