Coming in by the moated palace I stood once more on the Green before that west front, beautiful beyond all others, in spite of the strange defeatures Time has written on it.
"Afoot in England"
W.H. Hudson
There is no grange by the moated Grange where men crept out at night, crawling on their stomachs when the flares went up.
"From Bapaume to Passchendaele, 1917"
Philip Gibbs
Exactly half way across to the enemy lines were the remains of what had been a moated farm, which was a favourite objective of patrols.
"The Story of the "9th King's" in France"
Enos Herbert Glynne Roberts