ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



ENFIELD (vii, 7). A large moat formerly situated on the south- 

 east of Enfield Town Station has recently been filled in and is now built 

 over. 



ENFIELD (vii, 6). West of OLD PARK FARM, upon the Golf Links, 

 is a diamond-shaped moat surrounding a small elevated area. At the 

 western end is a cutting through which the moat is fed by a small 

 stream which flows into the River Lea. 



ENFIELD (ii, 16). North-east of Enfield Lock Station, on Plantation 

 Farm, is a quadrangular moat crossed by two bridges on the southern and 

 eastern sides respectively. 



ENFIELD (ii, 13): ' CAMLET MOAT.' In Moat Wood, north of 

 Trent Park and south of Enfield Chase is a large moat, oblong in plan, 

 with the entrance on the east. The house has long since been demolished. 

 In the time of Sir Walter Scott it must have presented a similar appearance 

 as now, for he mentions it as a place ' little more than a mound, partly 

 surrounded by a ditch, from which it derived the name of Camlet 

 Moat.' ' 



FINCHLEY (xi, 8). One mile south of Finchley is the long 

 rectangular moat of the ancient manor house. It incloses a large oblong 

 area but is divided by a public road. To the south of it, traces of other 

 artificial work are being obliterated and it is difficult to determine their 

 original form or use ; but it is possibly the site of fish ponds. 



FINCHLEY (xii, i o) : ' DUCKETTS' or ' DOVECOTS,' north-east of 

 St. Mary's Church, Hornsey. The site of the manor house is surrounded 

 by a narrow moat which is fed by water from the New River. A 

 portion on the east has been filled in, and the bridge is on the western 

 side. 



FINCHLEY (xi, 8). Norden, in his Speculum Brifannica, 1593, states 

 that 



a hill or fort in Hornesey Park, and so called Lodge Hill, for that thereon for some 

 time stood a lodge, when the park was replenished with deare ; but it seemeth by the 

 foundation it was rather a castle than a lodge, for the hill is at this time trenched 

 with two deep ditches, now olde and overgrown with bushes. 



This lodge, which was the property of the See of London from the 

 twelfth to the fourteenth century, occupied a site to the south-west of 

 the Manor Farm house on the north-east of Bishop's Wood, between 

 Highgate and Finchley. Although it appears that the lodge was pulled 

 down in the fourteenth century on account of its great age, traces of the 

 moat are visible, from which it would seem that it was square in plan 

 with sides 210 ft. in length. The moat was fed by a spring which still 

 flows. 



FULHAM (xxi, 7). The grounds of the Bishop of London's palace 

 at Fulham are entirely surrounded by a moat which is crossed by two 

 bridges. The moat is nearly a mile in circuit and incloses an area of 

 37 acres. It has been suggested that the moat was originally the fosse 

 made for the protection of the Danish camp in A.D. 879 ; a conjecture 



* Fortunes of Nigel, chap. 36. 



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