ANCIENT EARTHWORKS 



eastern side varies in width from 9 ft. to 12 ft. The western angle is 

 36 ft. wide, narrowing towards the northern corner, where it is from 

 28 ft. to 30 ft. broad. On this north-western side the interior ground 

 continues its former height ; but the external bank is only 4 ft. in 

 height. At the north the moat is again about 36ft. wide, but the inner 

 area attains a height of 7 ft. 6 in., while the outer bank is but 3 ft. At 

 this point the water of the moat is drained into a pond 60 ft. distant, 

 and although water is retained in the north-eastern side it is reduced in 

 bulk. On the north-east, between the angle and the entrance, the moat 

 is from 9 ft. to loft, wide, the interior site is 8 ft. high, but this is the 

 highest point in the outer bank, which is 6 ft. to 7 ft. 6 in. in height. 

 The entrance is by a causeway 21 ft. broad. The site of the ancient 

 house commands an extensive view of the surrounding country. 



PERIVALE (xv, 4). In a field west of the church and north-east of 

 HORSENDON FARM, may be seen the depressions in the land which mark 

 the site of the old manor-house of Greenford Parva. The house has 

 long since been demolished, but the moat still remains on three sides. 

 The northern portion was filled up some fifty years ago. 



PINNER (x, 3). ' HEADSTONE ' MANOR, about a mile west of Holy 

 Trinity Church, Wealdstone, was part of the archiepiscopal manor of 

 Harrow. A notice of the house in 1 344 opens the probability of the 

 moat dating from about that time. 



PINNER (v, 15). A fragment of a circular moat is crossed by a 

 road from Pinner to Harrow Weald. The southerly portion is 20 ft. 

 wide, the northerly is serpentine in form, and the north-eastern has been 

 filled up and farm buildings cover the site. 



RUISLIP (x, 9). At MANOR FARM, on the site of an Alien Priory 

 that was a cell of the abbey of Bee, is an oval moat, surrounding an 

 area of 350 ft. by 200 ft. The two entrances are on opposite sides of the 

 long axis. 



RUISLIP (x, 9). At SOUTHCOTE FARM, half a mile south-west of 

 Ruislip Reservoir is a quadrangular moat inclosing a site about 200 ft. 

 long by 100 ft. broad ; with the bridge on the south-western side. 



SOUTHGATE (vii, 14). In the grounds of BOWES MANOR, north- 

 east of St. Michael's Church, is a small irregular square moat around an 

 islet measuring about looft. across. 



SOUTH MIMMS (vi, 3). OLD FOLD MANOR FARM, north-west of 

 Hadley Green, occupies ground formerly protected by a well-defined 

 moat. The eastern side has been filled in and cow-houses occupy the 

 site ; but otherwise it retains its ancient appearance. On the southern 

 side the moat is i8ft. broad, increasing to 28ft. on the west and the 

 north. The depth to the water is from 4ft. on the north, to 5 ft. on the 

 south, the banks prettily clothed with wood and undergrowth. 



SOUTH MIMMS (vi, 3). At OLD FOLD FARM, about one and a half 



miles from the last mentioned, in a westerly direction and close to the 



county border, is another moat of smaller size but more complete in its 



extant four sides. It is of oblong plan with a rounded broadening at the 



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