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A HISTORY OF LEICESTERSHIRE 'The Tent,' are dealt with under Saltby Parish. DlSHLEY AND THORPE ACRE (xvii, 7). To the south and east of Garen- don Hall, on the site of the Cistercian abbey, are extensive remains of the water- works, drainage, and fishponds, dyked and embanked, situ- ated near a tributary of the Soar. EATON (xiii,3). West of Croxton Park a vallum 1 1 ft. on the scarp over- looks a deep valley towards the south. ELMESTHORPE (xxxvi , 13) . ' The Four Pits ' are fish- ponds containing a spring. Within a short distance is a very large angular fishpond. ELMESTHORPE (xliii, i). 'Billing- ton Rough' is a fish- pond of enormous size, embanked, and containing a large number of rectangu- lar mounds, which, before the draining of the pond in 1710, formed a range of islets. HARSTON (viii, 5 and 9). A frag- ment of a bank and fosse west of the village. HlNCKLEY(xlii, 8). 'The Moats' 272