The explosive growth of industry in the region and the subsequent housing needs of workers called for radical changes in administration, as the City of Eindhoven was still confined to its medieval moat city limits.

In 1516, after a failed Navarrese-French attempt to expel the Spanish invaders from the kingdom, an attempt in which Francis ' brothers had taken part, the Spanish Castilian kingdom's Governor, Cardinal Cisneros, ordered family lands to be confiscated, the demolition of the outer wall, the gates and two towers of the family castle, the moat was filled, and the height of the keep was reduced in half.

She was captured and confined to the castle, but escaped by leaping from a window into the moat below.

But this huge tower was defeated by the defenders by flooding the ground in front of the wall, creating a moat that caused the tower to get bogged in the mud.

At one point, he was arrested and imprisoned in Maxstoke Castle, but he escaped, swam the moat, and regrouped with his gang at Newbold Revel.

The walls were seven feet ( 2. 1 meters ) high and fourteen feet ( 4. 3 meters ) thick, and the whole works was surrounded by a glacis and a dry moat five feet ( 1. 5 meters ) deep and wide.

Subsequent eruptions from the Long Valley magma chamber were confined within the caldera with extrusions of relatively hot ( crystal-free ) rhyolite 700, 000 to 600, 000 years ago as the caldera floor was upwarped to form the resurgent dome followed by extrusions of cooler, crystal-rich moat rhyolite at 200, 000-year intervals ( 500, 000, 300, 000, and 100, 000 years ago ) in clockwise succession around the resurgent dome.

This is known as the Gaussian moat problem ; it was posed in 1962 by Basil Gordon and remains unsolved.

In 1567 it was later diverted outside onto the newly built moat for strategic reasons, due to the expected Ottoman attack.

In front of the wall was the outer moat, approximately 135 meters wide.

This moat, known as the Alevizov moat and having a length of 541 meters, width of 36 meters, and a depth of 9. 5 – 13 m was lined with limestone and, in 1533, fenced on both sides with low, 4-meter thick cogged brick walls.

After a few years, the Cathedral of Intercession of the Virgin, commonly known as Saint Basil's Cathedral, was built on the moat.

At the same time in the Alevizov moat, where there was no water, a state Pharmacy's garden ( for the growing of medicinal plants ) was arranged.

This line was built on the opposite side of the square — near a moat between the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya towers.

The moat was filled in 1813 and in its place, rows of trees were planted.

In the second half of 10th century, it turned into a gord called Piotrówka, which was protected by a rampart and a moat.

New Town had the Church of John the Baptist, and the Royal Castle was built between the church and the moat.

Archeological research has shown that the grad was situated on an artificial hill and had a natural moat formed by the branches of the Słupia, and was protected by a palisade.

Heraklion was formerly called Candia after the Saracen name for the place, Kandaiki, referring to the moat that was built around the then new settlement for defence.

Rallying there common folk, he ordered to dig a big moat and ordered to build a quite strong castle of earth.

The outer moat of Japanese castles typically protects other support buildings in addition to the castle.

When William Waldorf Astor bought Hever Castle, Kent, around 1906, the moat surrounding the house precluded the addition of wings for servants, guests and the servants of guests that the Astor manner required.

The city's fortifications were strengthened from 1431 onwards, with the addition of wall towers, a tall observation tower and a second line of walls, a moat being created between the two lines.

During medieval times, the wall and moat were repaired and the promontory houses a wealth of structures.

The moat is a picturesque holdover from medieval fortified residences, and is again a feature that Le Vau may have borrowed from Maisons.

Only one unusual nine-sided tower survives, together with the moat walls and medieval bridge.

Approximately north from Woolsthorpe is the deserted medieval village of Stenwith, defined by moat, ditch, enclosure, hollow way and croft ( homestead with land ) earthworks.

In medieval times from the 13th to the 15th century the Manor House was a building on the south western side of the Church surrounded by an earthen rampart and a moat, most of the site being now occupied by the Mount car park ( the area was formerly known as the Mount ).

There is a medieval moat sited at Little Pednor Farm which is recorded by English Heritage as associted with the lands transferred from the Abbey and was later succeeded as the predominant residence within the estate by Pednor House.

* Castle: A giant Dragon carries a captive into a majestic, towering medieval castle surrounded by a deep moat.

Hough End Hall was built by Sir Nicholas Mosley in 1596 as the new Withington manor house — the original medieval manor house was situated south-east of the modern junction of Mauldeth Road West and Princess Road, which was surrounded by a moat.

In medieval military engineering, a berm ( or berme ) was a level space between a parapet or defensive wall and an adjacent steep-walled ditch or moat.

In a medieval castle or other building, a garderobe was usually a simple hole discharging to the outside into a cesspit or the moat, depending on the structure of the building.

Ightham Mote ( pronounced " item moat ") is a medieval moated manor house close to the village of Ightham, near Sevenoaks in Kent ().

The château retained its medieval aspect of a fortress, with its moat and towers and cramped, dark living apartments.

Many examples of medieval and post-medieval pottery shards were recovered from the site of the Eresby Manor ’ s moat by archeologist E. H. Rudkin in 1966.

The Kromme Rijn splits off the Nederrijn-Lek main artery at the old town of Wijk bij Duurstede ( called Dorestad before medieval times ), after which it twists and turns through the province of Utrecht, past the towns of Cothen, Werkhoven, Odijk and Bunnik, and ends in the moat of the city of Utrecht.

The moat is also part of a set of linked medieval fishponds fed from an artificial stream which flowed into the south pond.

A contemplative way over Wallstrasse, the high street and by the moat open to the expert viewer still today the look in the medieval fabric of the town.

Within the parish there is a medieval moat, extant in 1963 but now only visible as cropmarks.

It has retained some traces of its medieval appearance, especially the main gateway, beneath a watch tower, and reached by a bridge over the old moat. About half an hour distant to the north-east, on the hillside, is the site of the famous battle of Sempach ( 9 July 1386 ), in which the Swiss defeated the Austrians, whose leader, Duke Leopold, lost his life.

The Christian population which lived within the moat of the medieval Belgrade's Kalemegdan fortress, overpopulated the city.

* Drimnagh is home to Drimnagh Castle, famous for being the only castle in Ireland which still has a moat encircling it, and is Dublin's only authentic medieval castle.

The site of the medieval manor house survives as a moat and fish ponds south of the village.

Until he moved to Vero Beach in 1995, his primary residence was a $ 10 million turreted mansion complete with moat near Miami decorated with firearms and medieval suits of armor.