

ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



uneven in its surface, two of the four corners being raised into small mounds, 

 one of which until lately was occupied by a windmill ; this was the caput 

 or chief residence of the Norman d'Eyncourts. 



At Norwell Woodhouse and at Belle Vue Park near Kirklington, and 

 about a mile west of Egmanton church and mound, are moated sites occupied 

 by farmsteads. 



The Fosse Way in passing through the county forms with slight exception 

 a clear manorial line ; the village sites, a number of them with their moated 

 manors, are set back as agricultural centres from the road, on an average 

 of a mile or more, clearly with the view of cultivation being conducted 

 round them. 



AVERH AM. Two miles west of Newark, on the west of St. Michael's church. 



BECKINGHAM. On the eastern boundary of the county and the west of 

 the River Trent, west of Gainsborough, is a moat surrounding an area called 

 Dog Island.' 



BILSTHORPE. Five miles north-west from Southwell. 



BURTON JOYCE. Five miles north-east by east from Nottingham, on the 

 north bank of the Trent, is the Eertune of the Domesday Survey. In the time 

 of Henry II it belonged to the family of Joez, from whom it derived the 

 adjunct to its name. A moat remains at Burton Lodge. 



CAR COLSTON. Nine miles south-west by south from Newark the re- 

 mains of a moat lie to the south-east of Car Colston Manor House, 



CARLTON ON TRENT. Six and three-quarter miles north from Newark. 

 A moat lies f of a mile south-west of the village. 



CAUNTON. Five and a half miles north-west by north from Newark. 

 A moat is on Earlshaw Hall Farm, south-west of the village. 



CLIFTON. Four and a half miles south-west from Nottingham ; now 

 destroyed. 



CODDINGTON. Two and a quarter miles east by north from Newark, 

 and north of Coddington Windmill, is a moat with two of its sides elongated. 



COLWICK. Two and a half miles east of Nottingham. 



CUCKNEY or NoRTON-CucKNEY. Five and a half miles south-south-west 

 from Worksop. 



DARLTON. Three and a quarter miles north-east by east from Tuxford 

 is a moat on the site of Kingshaugh Hall. 



GAMSTON. South of East Retford, on the River Idle ; area enclosed is 

 about 4 acres. 



GONALSTON. Four and three-quarter miles south-south-west from 

 Southwell. 



GOTHAM. Seven and a half miles south-south-west from Nottingham. 

 ' Rushcliffe Moat ' Water House, to the north of Crow Wood Hill, near the 

 boundary of the parishes of Gotham and West Leake. 



GRANBY. Four miles south-east from Bingham is the moated site of a 

 manor of the time of Edward the Confessor. At two of the angles are mounds. 



GREASLEY. Seven miles north-west from Nottingham. Beauvale Priory 

 to the west of Callis Hagg. 



HODSOCK. Two miles south-west from Blyth. The site is still occupied. 



HOLME PIERREPONT. South-east of Nottingham. The moat is now 

 destroyed. 



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