The castles of England, their story and structure (1896)
Mackenzie, James Dixon, Sir, 7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat, 1830-1900 · New York : The Macmillan co. · leaf 184
hich it inter-sects between this place and Bedford,at that period a region of swamps,skirted some higher ground on itsright bank where stand the churchand village of Eaton Socon, and herewas raised, in Danish or Saxon times,a vast earthwork, known as CastleHill, close to the \V. or left bank ofthe… … EATON SOCON river bank again for i<)o yards, enclos- ing about three and half acres thus by a moat, the land along this forming ,4o CASTLES OF ENGLAND an outer ward. At some distance from this outer moat was a second one,curving back in the same way from the ditcli on the N., and 40 to 50 feet…
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