Swells and Wells Walk 6 Battle of Stow. Traditional Cache
Swells and Wells Walk 6 Battle of Stow.
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Part of a series of 11 caches on a walk of about 6.5 miles,starting and finishing in Stow on the Wold,the highest town above sea level in the Cotswolds.
In the early morning of 21 March 1646 the last battle of the Civil War took place in Gloucestershire,one mile north of the town of Stow on the Wold.After initial royalist success the superiority of the parliamentary forces,particulary Breretons cavalry,soon overwhelmed and routed the royalist forces.Fleeing the field,the royalists fought a running fight back into the streets of Stow where the final action took place,culminating in Astleys surrender in the market square. The destruction of the last royalist field army at Stow on the Wold dashed the last desperate hopes of the Royalist cause and effectively signalled the end of the Civil War.Charles soon surrendered soon afterwards.to the Scottish army at Newark in May 1646.
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