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 A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE course of the brook, and turning eastward forms the boundary to a large courtyard until lost beneath the action of the plough. NEWTOWN LINFORD (xxiv, 8). Banks at Maplewell Hall. NORTH KILWORTH (liii, 3 and 4). On the north-east of the church the site of the ' Old Hall ' is marked by a moat 1 8 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, inclosing three sides of a square. To the west of the moat another square area is surrounded by a bank 4 ft. high at the most perfect point ; and to the south-east are the remains of other banks which have been mutilated in digging for gravel. OWSTON AND NEWBOLD (xxxiii, 3). In a field to the north of the road from Owston to Knossington is a large dry moat surmounted by a bank. POTTERS MARSTON (xxxvi, 15). A moat has here embraced both hall and church. On the north side is a long moat 30 ft. wide, with an outer bank 4 ft. high ; a ditch 80 ft. long connects this with another portion of the moat on the east, where it is 15 ft. wide and 3 ft. deep, with an outer bank. SEAGRAVE (xviii, 12). Extensive entrenchments defend a manorial site in this village. On the north is a low vallum, and a fosse 4ft. gin. deep and 9 ft. wide. At the turn of the north-east corner and on the east side facing the Fosse Way is a double vallum and double fosse. The outer is 4 ft. deep and i6ft. wide, the inner 9 ft. deep and 22 ft. wide ; but the ramparts have been almost destroyed. At the east the works turn at an obtuse angle and the fosse becomes 1 1 ft. deep. STOKE GOLDING (xxxv, 14). ' The Moats.' In a field north-west of the vicarage is an embanked moat which originally inclosed a square area. The principal extant portion on the south is 60 ft. wide and loft. deep. Shallow ditches branch from it towards the north and west with banks 4 ft. in height on the inner side. A spring rises on the south-west. THORPE ARNOLD (xx, 6). Near to the vicarage a bank 4ft. 6 in. high has inclosed a square tract of land, but three sides only are left, situated on the top of a gently sloping hill. On the south-east is a large fishpond, and on the declivity of the hill towards the west are the remains of elaborate defences. Two circular depressions open upon a semi-circular platform, beneath which is a curved agger, part of an outwork ; and on the west is another, which is continued in a field on the opposite side of the road, where there is a double vallum 200 ft. in length. Apparently this was an early camp utilized in the Middle Ages. UPTON (xxxv, 5). To the south-west of the manor house is the frag- ment of a moat which on the south is 1 2 ft. wide and crested by a bank 3 ft. in height ; and on the north extend two other low aggers. WYFORDBY (xx, 11). A square plateau, 68ft. square, with a scarp of 7 ft., is surrounded by a dry moat 20 ft. wide, with low banks, which at the north-west corner continue 150 ft. towards the west. Parallel to the west side is a fishpond. 270