A HISTORY OF WARWICKSHIRE 



they were dammed by a number of artificial banks and fed by sluices 

 from the Avon. These works are very extensive, covering perhaps 6 or 

 7 acres. The central moated mount, upon which the castle itself stood, 

 is an almost square plateau and contains nearly an acre ; it has irregular 

 additions and another smaller raised square on the east side ; only frag- 



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N-fl. The entrenchments of the large cu-ea, to 

 the south, are outside of the limits cfthvs 

 plan 



ments of walls of masonry now survive, and Dugdale wrote of it as 

 merely ' Moats and Heaps of Rubbish ' in 1656.' 



BRINKLOW (5 miles north-west of Rugby). Above and to the 

 east of the churchyard in this village are some very imposing and re- 



1 Dugdale's Warm. p. 32 ; Turner's Shaks. Land, p. 280 ; Timmins's Wane. p. 237. 



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