Eccleshall Castle in Staffordshire — a residence of the Bishops of Lichfield — was fortified for the king during the Civil War. Parliamentary forces besieged and captured it in 1643. The Bishop's castle was one of several ecclesiastical fortifications in the Midlands that became Civil War strongholds. Its surrender helped consolidate Parliamentary control of north Staffordshire in the period before Hopton Heath.
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