A HISTORY OF MIDDLESEX 



Bath Road, a small square camp, about 380 ft. square, was extant until 

 the autumn of 1906. It is now ploughed perfectly flat, leaving no trace 

 of the work. Stukeley supposed it to have been one of Cassar's stations 

 after he crossed the River Thames in pursuit of Cassivellaunus ; a 

 conjecture that has become local tradition, firmly held by the inhabitants 

 of the neighbourhood. 



ISLEWORTH (xx, 3). To the east of OSTERLEY PARK was a small 

 circular earthwork 200 ft. in diameter inclusive, with the entrance on 

 the eastern side. 



TWICKENHAM (xx, 10). A circular camp 200 ft. in diameter was 

 situated on Hounslow Heath against the boundary of the cemetery, 

 south of the railway. It has now all but perished, the slightest depression 

 in the ground is only iust discernible. 



HOMESTEAD MOATS 



[CLASS F] 



ACTON (xvi, 9) : ' FRIARS' PLACE FARM.' Within a quarter of a 

 mile north of Acton Station on the Great Western Railway are the 

 remains of two moats, of which one will be classified under G. That 

 which we now consider is a water moat, but only two sides remain, the 

 southern, which is about 50 ft. wide, and the western, which is consider- 

 ably narrower. Lysons, in the Environs of London, considers this to have 

 formed part of the lands given by Adam de Hervynton to the prior and 

 convent of St. Bartholomew in Smithfield. 



EDMONTON (vii, 12) : MOAT HOUSE FARM, Marsh side, to the 

 east of Lower Edmonton. The old Moat House was demolished in 

 1906 but the moat at present remains. This is a large oblong in plan, 

 and although varying in breadth it averages about 20 ft., and is 8 ft. deep. 

 The south-western side has been narrowed by the formation of a road. 

 Near the north angle the water of the moat intrudes into the central 

 area in a semicircular course, thus forming an islet. In the Ordnance 

 Survey two small islands are erroneously inserted. 



EDMONTON (vii, 16). A small quadrangular moat to the west of 

 Angel Road Station has recently been filled up with earth. 



EDMONTON (vii, 15). At WEIR HALL, south-west of Millfield 

 Training School, in the district of Upper Edmonton, is a moat, averaging 

 3oft. wide. The banks a foot above the water gently slope upwards 

 towards the centre of the interior site, where a modern house now stands. 

 At the south-eastern angle the water cuts off a corner of the inner area, 

 thereby forming an island. It is fed by Pymmes Brook. 



ENFIELD (vii, 8). ' DURANT'S ARBOUR,' half a mile north of 

 Ponders End, was the name of the manor house of the Durant family in 

 the fourteenth century. The name has survived the house and is now 

 applied to the large square moat with the bridge on the north-eastern 

 side. 



