HISTORY OF DECOYS. | ||
| The largest number of fowl taken in a single season was in 1,34-35, when 6,357 are recorded as captured, since which date over 6,000 fowl have twice been caught in two different seasons. Beginning in the south of the county, a line drawn from Whittlesey in Cambridgeshire to Sleaford in Lincolnshire intersects numerous ancient and disused Decoys. The first two met with are those of Whittlesey and Borough Fen. The former in Cambridge, and the latter in North Hants, will be found under their respective counties. Crossing, however, from Nort Hants into Lincoln, we at once find a group of six old | ||
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| Decoys close together, and all within 61 miles E. of Bourne, and just halfway between the latter town and Spalding. They are as follows :- Bourne Decoy, in Bourne Fen, halfway between Twenty Station (on the Bourne and Spalding Railway) and the River Glen, and 4½ miles E. of Bourne. Deeping Fen Decoys, of which there were five on the northern edge of Deeping Fen, between Spalding Common and Bourne Fen, and between the River Glen and the North Drove Drain. The four northernmost of these are within a space of a mile long, and are within 6 miles E. of Bourne. | ||