Corstorphine Doocot, in the care of Historic Environment Scotland. Please DO NOT look for this after dark. Cache has permission, but may be being removed by overlooking neighbours of they are being disturbed. Another occurrence will lead to cache being archived.
Built in the 1500s, as part of the estate of the now demolished Corstorphine Castle. The young birds were used as a reliable source of meat for the diet of the residents of the estate. The interior of the doocot contains 1060 nesting sites. There used to be a belief that if a doocot was demolished, then the wife of the laird would be dead within a year. Perhaps this is why the doocot survived when the castle was demolished? Or perhaps retaining the doocot, for a source of meat, was a purely pragmatic approach...
Please DO NOT cross the boundary hedges as these are privately owned gardens. The cache is NOT within the hedges, nor is it attached to the Doocot.
Cache placed by kind permission of Historic Environment Scotland.