Tutbury Castle — which had been a prison of Mary Queen of Scots — held a Royalist garrison through the war. It surrendered in April 1646 as part of the general Royalist collapse following Naseby. Parliament ordered it slighted; the ruins, overlooking the Dove valley, remain dramatic. The castle had also been a Lancastrian stronghold in the Wars of the Roses.
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