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He found the place he seemed in need of at Hickleybrow , near Urshot , in Kent . It was a little queer isolated place , in a dell surrounded by old pine woods that were black and forbidding at night . A humped shoulder of down cut it off from the sunset , and a gaunt well with a shattered penthouse dwarfed the dwelling . The little house was creeperless , several windows were broken , and the cart shed had a black shadow at midday . It was a mile and a half from the end house of the village , and its loneliness was very doubtfully relieved by an ambiguous family of echoes . The place impressed Bensington as being eminently adapted to the requirements of scientific research . He walked over the premises sketching out coops and runs with a sweeping arm , and he found the kitchen capable of accommodating a series of incubators and foster mothers with the very minimum of alteration .