In a daring night escalade, Royalists recaptured Pontefract Castle shortly after it had been surrendered. The garrison held it for two more years through the Second Civil War, making Pontefract the most persistently defended fortress of the entire conflict.
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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