A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE 



course of the brook, and turning eastward forms the boundary to a large 

 courtyard until lost beneath the action of the plough. 



NEWTOWN LINFORD (xxiv, 8). Banks at Maplewell Hall. 



NORTH KILWORTH (liii, 3 and 4). On the north-east of the church the 

 site of the ' Old Hall ' is marked by a moat 1 8 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, 

 inclosing three sides of a square. To the west of the moat another square 

 area is surrounded by a bank 4 ft. high at the most perfect point ; and to the 

 south-east are the remains of other banks which have been mutilated in 

 digging for gravel. 



OWSTON AND NEWBOLD (xxxiii, 3). In a field to the north of the 

 road from Owston to Knossington is a large dry moat surmounted by 

 a bank. 



POTTERS MARSTON (xxxvi, 15). A moat has here embraced both hall 

 and church. On the north side is a long moat 30 ft. wide, with an 

 outer bank 4 ft. high ; a ditch 80 ft. long connects this with another 

 portion of the moat on the east, where it is 15 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, 

 with an outer bank. 



SEAGRAVE (xviii, 12). Extensive entrenchments defend a manorial site 

 in this village. On the north is a low vallum, and a fosse 4ft. gin. deep 

 and 9 ft. wide. At the turn of the north-east corner and on the east side 

 facing the Fosse Way is a double vallum and double fosse. The outer is 4 ft. 

 deep and i6ft. wide, the inner 9 ft. deep and 22 ft. wide ; but the ramparts 

 have been almost destroyed. At the east the works turn at an obtuse angle 

 and the fosse becomes 1 1 ft. deep. 



STOKE GOLDING (xxxv, 14). ' The Moats.' In a field north-west of the 

 vicarage is an embanked moat which originally inclosed a square area. The 

 principal extant portion on the south is 60 ft. wide and loft. deep. Shallow 

 ditches branch from it towards the north and west with banks 4 ft. in height 

 on the inner side. A spring rises on the south-west. 



THORPE ARNOLD (xx, 6). Near to the vicarage a bank 4ft. 6 in. high 

 has inclosed a square tract of land, but three sides only are left, situated on 

 the top of a gently sloping hill. On the south-east is a large fishpond, and 

 on the declivity of the hill towards the west are the remains of elaborate 

 defences. Two circular depressions open upon a semi-circular platform, 

 beneath which is a curved agger, part of an outwork ; and on the west is 

 another, which is continued in a field on the opposite side of the road, where 

 there is a double vallum 200 ft. in length. Apparently this was an early 

 camp utilized in the Middle Ages. 



UPTON (xxxv, 5). To the south-west of the manor house is the frag- 

 ment of a moat which on the south is 1 2 ft. wide and crested by a bank 3 ft. 

 in height ; and on the north extend two other low aggers. 



WYFORDBY (xx, 11). A square plateau, 68ft. square, with a scarp of 

 7 ft., is surrounded by a dry moat 20 ft. wide, with low banks, which at the 

 north-west corner continue 150 ft. towards the west. Parallel to the west 

 side is a fishpond. 



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