💡 Interesting Facts
in 1644, during the English Civil War, Haggate was the scene of a skirmish in which five people were killed by King Charles I's troops?during the English Civil War, the Crown Inn in Nantwich, Cheshire was used as a place of worship, as the church was used as a prison?during the English Civil War, Charles I was staying in Gamul House, Chester, Cheshire, when his army was defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor?the 13th-century font in Holy Trinity Church, Cuckfield (pictured) reputedly suffered a large crack when a horse, stabled inside the church during the English Civil War, kicked it?the Spencer family's Wormleighton Manor in Warwickshire, England, was set ablaze by Royalist forces from Banbury during the English Civil War to prevent it becoming a parliamentary stronghold?under the terms of the Bunbury Agreement, the English county of Cheshire would have remained neutral during the English Civil War?the first hoard in Pembrokeshire from the Civil War was found whilst building a tennis court at Tregwynt Mansion?the Battle of the Severn in 1655 in Annapolis, Maryland, was closely related to the conflicts of the English Civil War, which had concluded four years earlier in England?during the English Civil War, Royalist soldiers fired artillery at Leicester from Raw Dykes Roman earthwork?St Symphorian's Church in Durrington, West Sussex, was wrecked during the English Civil War by Parliamentarian villagers, who disliked their rector's Royalist views and unintelligible preaching?Denton Hall (pictured), once the home of General Fairfax, the English Civil War commander-in-chief, was later sold for less than the value of the timber on the estate?Cothelstone Manor was largely destroyed during the English Civil War and rebuilt 200 years later?Cliffe, Richmondshire, where the "clock stopped, never to go again", is surrounded by archaeological features including barrows, a Roman road and an English Civil War battleground?George Stewart, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny (pictured) who was killed at the age of 24 at Edgehill, the first pitched battle of the English Civil War, was a cousin of King Charles I of England?Gilbert Mabbot (1622–1670) was a pioneering journalist during the English Civil War who also served as an official licenser of the press?Skinnand is a deserted medieval village in Lincolnshire, and that its Norman church was probably burned down by Oliver Cromwell in the English Civil War?Sir Trevor Williams of Llangybi in Wales changed sides between Royalists and Parliamentarians four times in the English Civil War, before being imprisoned for the crime of scandalum magnatum?Carlbury hill was the site of an English Civil War battery emplacement for a Royalist contingent at the Battle of Piercebridge?