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 A HISTORY OF SUFFOLK direction in an adjacent field. On the north it is 27 ft. wide, and along the eastern side it is partially filled and turned into a vegetable garden. The southern side is obliterated. GisLEHAM (xix, 2).— On the site of Gisleham Hall, 5^ miles east by south from Becdes, is one side of the original moat. On the opposite side of the road to the last is situated the site of the manor house — erroneously called the Hall in the Ordnance Survey — w^ithin a very perfect double moat, the smaller placed almost in the centre of the larger water-girt area ; both of them being nearly square. The inner moat averages 24 ft. wide, and its banks rise 4 ft. above the water. The outer one, measuring 500 ft. SCALE. OF FEET too ZOO 300 Moat Round Site of Gisleham Manor Housk by 520 ft., averages I2 ft, wide, the banks being about 3 ft. 6 in. high. GisLiNGHAM (xxxv, 5). — One angle and a piece of the southern side of a moat remain at Swattersfield Hall, 4 miles west by south from Eye. GosBECK (Ivii, 15). — Two parallel sides of a narrow moat, formerly inclosing a large area, are near Wood House, north-west of St. Mary's Church, 3J miles east by north from Needham Market. Great Ashfield (xxxv, i 3). — At Hall Farm, south-east of the village, 9 miles east by north from Bury St. Edmunds, is a square moat ; another moat, branching from the two northern corners, surrounded an area with a sweeping curve, and although most of this has been filled in the original course may be easily traced. South of Great Ashfield an oblong moat lies in a field. Great Ashfield (xlvi, i). — Over a mile to the south of the village, and east of Button Haugh Green, is an oblong moat with an inter- mediate channel dividing the area into two square divisions. The northern side of the western division has gone, and the water is con- ducted into the moat at its south-western angle. Great Barton (xxxiii, 16). — At Conyer's Green, Leeds Wood, north-east of Necton Hall, a large part of a moat remains. The eastern and part of the southern sides have been levelled. Great Bradley (Ixi, 3). — At the Hall south of the church, 5 miles north from Haverhill, are two sides of a large moat. Great BRicETT(or Brisett) (Ixv, 10). — Four miles south-west from Needham Market. Around the site of an alien priory of Augus- tine Canons, a cell to Nobiliac, are twin cir- cular moats adjoining one another, yet so ir- regular in outline that the one towards the south-east approaches the figure of a pent- agon. Great Cornard (Ixxix, 4). — At Wrong's Farm, south- east of the village, i^ miles east from Sudbury, is an irre- gular quadrangular moat. Great Finborough (Ivi, 13). — Three sides of a moat are at Boarded Barn Farm, High Street Green, 3 miles south-west from Stowmarket. Great Glemham (xlix, 10). — At Fiddler's Hall, 2 miles north-west from Framlingham, are various pieces of moats that would appear to have formed two inclosures, while to the south of them a circular plot of moat. Great Thurlow (Ixi, Green, 4 miles north-north-east from Haverhill, is a square moat, partly drained. Great Thurlow (Ixi, 11). — A quadrangular moat is at Glebe Farm, south-west of the village, near the vicarage. Great Waldingfield (Ixxiii, 1). — The re- land to has Its own 8).— At Sowley mams of a moat, spread into ponds until its original form is lost except on the southern side, is at Brandeston Hall, i^ miles south from Lavenham. Great Waldingfield (Ixxiii, 9). — At Dyer's Green Farm, south-west of Hoi brook Park, are three sides of an oblong moat. Great Welnetham (liv, 4). — The Hall, 610