As Fairfax advanced into Devon after Langport Parliamentary forces took Powderham Castle on the Exe estuary cutting off Royalist communications; part of the systematic reduction of Royalist Devon in late 1645 that eventually forced Hopton to surrender at Truro in March 1646.
Aubrey generates in-depth historical research for any location in Britain — drawing on Domesday records, scheduled monuments, Victorian OS maps, geological data and archaeological archives to tell the full story of a place.
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