A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK 



direction in an adjacent field. On the north it 

 is 27 ft. wide, and along the eastern side it is 

 partially filled and turned into a vegetable 

 garden. The southern side is obliterated. 



GisLEHAM (xix, 2).— On the site of Gisleham 

 Hall, 5^ miles east by south from Becdes, is one 

 side of the original moat. 



On the opposite side of the road to the last is 

 situated the site of the manor house — erroneously 

 called the Hall in the Ordnance Survey — w^ithin a 

 very perfect double moat, the smaller placed almost 

 in the centre of the larger water-girt area ; both of 

 them being nearly square. The inner moat 

 averages 24 ft. wide, and its banks rise 4 ft. above 

 the water. The outer one, measuring 500 ft. 



SCALE. OF FEET 



too ZOO 300 



Moat Round Site of Gisleham Manor Housk 



by 520 ft., averages I2 ft, wide, the banks being 

 about 3 ft. 6 in. high. 



GisLiNGHAM (xxxv, 5). — One angle and a 

 piece of the southern side of a moat remain at 

 Swattersfield Hall, 4 miles west by south from 

 Eye. 



GosBECK (Ivii, 15). — Two parallel sides of a 

 narrow moat, formerly inclosing a large area, are 

 near Wood House, north-west of St. Mary's 

 Church, 3J miles east by north from Needham 

 Market. 



Great Ashfield (xxxv, i 3). — At Hall Farm, 

 south-east of the village, 9 miles east by north 

 from Bury St. Edmunds, is a square moat ; 

 another moat, branching from the two northern 

 corners, surrounded an area with a sweeping 

 curve, and although most of this has been filled 

 in the original course may be easily traced. 



South of Great Ashfield an oblong moat lies 

 in a field. 



Great Ashfield (xlvi, i). — Over a mile to 



the south of the village, and east of Button 

 Haugh Green, is an oblong moat with an inter- 

 mediate channel dividing the area into two 

 square divisions. The northern side of the 

 western division has gone, and the water is con- 

 ducted into the moat at its south-western angle. 

 Great Barton (xxxiii, 16). — At Conyer's 

 Green, Leeds Wood, north-east of Necton Hall, 

 a large part of a moat remains. The eastern 

 and part of the southern sides have been levelled. 

 Great Bradley (Ixi, 3). — At the Hall south 

 of the church, 5 miles north from Haverhill, are 

 two sides of a large moat. 



Great BRicETT(or Brisett) (Ixv, 10). — Four 

 miles south-west from Needham Market. 



Around the site of an 

 alien priory of Augus- 

 tine Canons, a cell to 

 Nobiliac, are twin cir- 

 cular moats adjoining 

 one another, yet so ir- 

 regular in outline that 

 the one towards the 

 south-east approaches 

 the figure of a pent- 

 agon. 



Great Cornard 

 (Ixxix, 4). — At 

 Wrong's Farm, south- 

 east of the village, 

 i^ miles east from 

 Sudbury, is an irre- 

 gular quadrangular 

 moat. 



Great Finborough 

 (Ivi, 13). — Three sides 

 of a moat are at 

 Boarded Barn Farm, 

 High Street Green, 

 3 miles south-west 

 from Stowmarket. 

 Great Glemham (xlix, 10). — At Fiddler's 

 Hall, 2 miles north-west from Framlingham, are 

 various pieces of moats that would appear to 

 have formed two inclosures, while to the south 

 of them a circular plot of 

 moat. 



Great Thurlow (Ixi, 

 Green, 4 miles north-north-east from Haverhill, 

 is a square moat, partly drained. 



Great Thurlow (Ixi, 11). — A quadrangular 

 moat is at Glebe Farm, south-west of the village, 

 near the vicarage. 



Great Waldingfield (Ixxiii, 1). — The re- 



land 



to 

 has 



Its own 



8).— At Sowley 



mams of a moat, spread into ponds until its 

 original form is lost except on the southern side, 

 is at Brandeston Hall, i^ miles south from 

 Lavenham. 



Great Waldingfield (Ixxiii, 9). — At Dyer's 

 Green Farm, south-west of Hoi brook Park, are 

 three sides of an oblong moat. 



Great Welnetham (liv, 4). — The Hall, 



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