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A HISTORY OF DERBYSHIRE 2. Near ATLOW MOAT FARM (xxxviii. 16), in Atlow, close to Hen- more brook, are the four sides of an old moat enclosing a space of about 200 feet square, where formerly stood a homestead of the Okeover family. 3. At BEARWARDCOTE (liv. 2), in Etwall parish, near to the Great Northern Railway, is a rectangular area, measuring about 250 feet by BEARWARDCOTE. 175 feet, surrounded by a water-filled moat, and gained by a bridge on the east side. The area is planted and surrounded with trees. 1 4. BRAILSFORD OLD HALL (xliv. 13), which long ago disappeared, stood to the south-east of the present rectory house ; there are traces of a large moat. 5. At MOAT BANK (Ivii. 14), BRETBY, there are some small remains of what appears to be a former homestead moat. 6. CALLOW HALL (xxxix. 45). This ancient homestead, in Wirks- worth parish, still retains part of two sides of the former moat by which it used to be surrounded. 7. In CHATSWORTH PARK (xxiv. 5), on the left-hand side of the road from the bridge over the Derwent to the great house, is a low sixteenth-century tower or square of parapetted masonry, rising out of a water-filled moat. The upper part, planted with shrubs, is known as Queen Mary's Bower. It is quite possible that this was originally a mount and ditch, the mount being enclosed by its present masonry in deference to the Italian style of land- scape effect then in vogue. This would account for the core of earth within it. 8. The site of CUBLEY HALL (xlviii. 5), for many generations a seat of the Montgomery family, is surrounded by a water-filled moat of 1 Derb. Arch. Journ. iv. 63. 388 N SCALE Of FEET 100 2OO 2>OO HALL.