Dudley Castle, on its dramatic hill above the Black Country, was one of the most doggedly defended Royalist garrisons in the Midlands. Sir Thomas Leveson held it against Parliamentary sieges. It only surrendered in May 1646 after a plague outbreak in the garrison made further resistance impossible. The castle was subsequently slighted; a fire in 1750 completed the destruction. The ruins are now part of Dudley Zoo.
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