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An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Herefordshire
… stone mortar. ConditionGood. Secular (2). Homestead Moat, 50 yards S. of the church, is of roughly rectangular … bend. (3). Showle Court, house, outbuilding and moat, 1,160 yards N.N.E. of the church. The House is of two … built in the 17th and extended in the 18th century. The Moat, S.E. of the house, formerly enclosed a roughly …
A History of the County of Somerset
… gatehouse, 32 and later a fishpond possibly created from a moat mentioned in 1485. 33 A house called Yarlington House … and pigs and rents for pasture in the woods and the former moat at the manor house had been abandoned. 69 By 1489 some …
A History of the County of Oxford
… to the west, perhaps destroying part of Yelford Manor's moat. 91 At inclosure in 1853 a straight road to Hardwick was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… in 1651. 74 South-west of the house is a water-filled moat or ditch of unknown date, its main section running north … circuit of water around the house. Arguments that the moat formed part of a single design with a ditch or moat around College Farm (on land historically quite …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in the County of Northamptonshire
… 447880). Fig. 153 Yelvertoft (4) Settlement remains, moat and site of watermill ac(4) Settlement remains, moat and mill site (SP 597758 and 602755; Figs. 152 and 153), … a narrow channel runs S.E. from the S.E. ditch of the moat. The channel is probably a leat for a water mill which …
An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in City of York
… dam, 'softened the soil of the motte', or perhaps 'of the moat', 27 also weakening 262 ft. of the S.W. wall of the … A gate in the N.W. wall led to a stone bridge across the moat surrounding the motte. Within the bailey had stood a … the bailey, outside the main wall and at the edge of the moat was a low wall, apparently the 'flanker' partly …