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Original Text (Annotation: EPW024707 / 1365369)
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MOAT HOUSE....BUILT AND DESIGNED IN 1680 BY WILLIAM WILSON, BUILDER, ARCHITECT, AND STUDENT OF SIR CHRISTOPHER WREN, FOR HIS NEW WIFE, JANE PUDSEY, A WEALTHY WIDOW WHO HAD PREVIOUSLY OWNED NEARBY LANGLEY HALL, WITH HER FIRST HUSBAND.
THE MOAT SURVIVED UNTIL 1860 AND HAD TO BE CROSSED BY A SMALL STONE BRIDGE. NO TRACE OF THE MOAT REMAINS. '
