Rockingham Castle in Northamptonshire on the Leicestershire border was a Royalist garrison in 1643, threatening the Eastern Association from the west. Parliamentary forces from Northampton eventually took the castle and garrisoned it, using its elevated position to control the Welland valley and the routes between Leicester and the Eastern Association heartland.
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