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A History of the County of Oxford
… alterations at Witney manor house, including creation of a moat, enlargement of the curtain wall, and insertion of a …
A History of the County of Oxford
… decoration, and most external walls were rendered. 42 A moat, replacing the earlier ditch, was created probably in … relatively slight construction suggesting that, like the moat, it was probably not primarily defensive. By the 1220s … from the earlier 14th century, lay probably beyond the moat and curtain wall on the north, and several lesser gates …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… (1937), 58; Med. Arch., 14 (1970), 176). b(33) Fishponds, Moat and Manorial Site (SP 90606315), on the W. side of the … to a rectangular ditched enclosure which may have been a moat. In the field to the S. a series of embanked closes …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… are the remains of an extensive building surrounded by a moat, supposed to have been the manor-house of the Bishop of …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… Middle Ages 18 and there was a 12th-century chapel. 19 A moat north of Priorslee, close to Watling Street, probably …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Huntingdonshire
… and 8 ft. high above the bottom of the surrounding moat on the S.E. There are traces of a small bailey on the S.E. side and of an outer circular moat surrounding the hillock. ConditionPoor. c(3). Homestead Moat, on the E. side of the village and 1 m. S.S.E. of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… road, which also occupied a level site at c. 115 m. 81 A moat at the west end of the green 82 may be that of a … of a wood before any settlement developed there. 89 The moat at Derisley 90 probably enclosed the house of the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the 14th and 15th centuries the manor house stood within a moat whose bridge was mentioned in 1461. 21 The site was … Saxon Hall. 49 Both the platform and the remains of the moat were occupied in 1990 by gardens. The present Saxon Hall …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… F21 58/RAF/2316, 006970; air photographs in NMR) a(3) Moat (?) (SP 620498), lies S. of the site of Blakesley Hall, … land in Blakesley in about 1194. The feature called a 'moat' on OS plans is now a watercourse of Ushaped plan some … revetment. It is unlikely that it was ever a medieval moat; the remains are largely the result of 18th or …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Buckinghamshire
… WOODHAM. (O.S. 6 in. xxvii. N.E.) Secular (1). Homestead Moat, near a stream N.W. of Akeman Street Station. (2). …