Powis Castle — the great red castle overlooking Welshpool, home of the Herbert family — was taken by Parliamentary forces under Sir Thomas Myddelton in 1644 as part of the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Montgomery. The castle had been a Royalist base controlling the upper Severn valley. Its capture helped secure the Parliamentary flanks before Montgomery. Powis Castle survives today as one of Wales's finest houses.
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